The Lacanian left
Subtitle: psychoanalysis, theory, and politics
By: Yannis Stavrakakis.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780791473290
Subjects: Lacan, Jacques, -- 1901-1981; Political psychology; Psychoanalysis -- Political aspects; Political science -- Philosophy; Right and left (Political science)
Notes: Originally published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Locating the Lacanian left; title: Antinomies of creativity : Lacan and Castoriadis on social construction and the political; title: Laclau with Lacan on jouissance : negotiating the affective limits of discourse; title: Zizek's "perversion" : the lure of Antigone and the fetishism of the act; title: Excursus on Badiou; title: What sticks? : from symbolic power to jouissance; title: Enjoying the nation : a success story?; title: Lack of passion : European identity revisited; title: The consumerist "politics of jouissance" and the fantasy of advertising; title: Democracy in post-democratic times.