Enjoy Your Symptom!
Subtitle: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415772594
Subjects: Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Psychology; Cinema/Film: Book; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Film & Video - History & Criticism; 1901-1981; Lacan, Jacques,; Motion pictures; Psychological aspects
First sentence: It may seem peculiar, even absurd, to set Chaplin under the sign of "death and sublimation": is not the universe of Chaplin's films, a universe bursting with nonsublime vitality, vulgarity even, the very opposite of a damp romantic obsession with death and sublimation?