The Book Depository Looking Awry by Slavoj ŽIžEk
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Description: Looking Awry : Paperback : MIT Press Ltd : 9780262740159 : 026274015X : 20 May 2016 : Slavoj ?i?ek provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. The Book Depository Looking Awry by Slavoj ŽIžEk - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Rebecca Keating
Rating: 5
Review: I read this with a view to establishing a thesis for a class in Lacan. It was immensely helpful
Author: Beehaz
Rating: 4
Review: I didn't give this book five stars because I didn't feel I knew Lacan much better after reading it. Granted, there were a few memorable moments of Lacanian interpretation, but now that I look back on it, they were only enlightening because of background information I had from better introductory texts. Fink's 'Clinical Introduction,' and 'Lacanian Subject,' are better for a base understanding of Lacan. Overall, I felt the book was worth the read, because it was Zizek after all.. I enjoyed a lot of the literature interpretations he included, as well as film analysis. Like other reviewers have commented, this is more Zizek in here than Lacan, and this was part of the reason I decided to read this. However, I felt the overall format of the book- divided by Lacanian theoretical points- did not help the reader's already difficult task of trying to keep track of Zizek's often scattered arguments.
