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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books) Paperback – September 8, 1992

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Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan.

Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.

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Žižek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock's The Birds, drawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, be plays the philosopher as standup comic...The elusive Lacan, who cultivated an aura of indecipherability with the care of a diva becomes a field guide to life in an age of media.—Edward Ball, Voice Literary Supplement—

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In this book Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Reprint edition (September 8, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 026274015X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262740159
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.06 x 6.98 x 0.4 inches

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"The most dangerous philosopher in the West," (says Adam Kirsch of The New Republic) Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce;" "Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle;" "In Defense of Lost Causes;" "Living in the End Times;" and many more.

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Rebecca Keating
Insightful and apropos of culture
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2019
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I read this with a view to establishing a thesis for a class in Lacan. It was immensely helpful

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Hal Boyd
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016
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Exactly as promised.

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I. Koppel
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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2017
smart & enjoyable.

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Prosopopeia
Lacanian heresy inside! Beware of being tainted!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2004
I am struck by the negative reviews that caution readers: "Zizek is not an orthodox Lacanian! Read him only if you have already understood Lacan!" This is, of course, the typically cultish--really Catholic--approach to Lacan that treats him as a holy text, pre-supposes a series of high priests who have been properly anoited and through whom one must receive the officially sanctioned interpretation. I don't read Zizek for Lacan--I read him for Zizek, and I encourage others to do likewise. *Looking Awry* and *Enjoy Your Symptom* are prehaps the easiest approaches to Zizek and his brand of cultural criticism, as they rely almost entirely on popular culture, especially film. Zizek's perverse (and often dirty) sense of humor and tendency to read against the grain at all costs are apparent on nearly every page, which makes this a very engaging read, indeed. Intellectually, there are some problems with his approach, of course--but Zizek's voice is such a refreshing change of pace, and his constant turn to a reading that you thought was impossible (but turns out to be preversely appealing) makes them all worthwhile.

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Beehaz
'the Real' title: An Introduction to Zizek
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2010
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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.

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Josef Roubicek
Great book
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013
those who criticize zizek usually think he is an evil marxist trying to subtly trick them into accepting 'totalitarian,' 'stalinist' views. really he is nothing of the sort--even in Tito's 'moderate' communist Yugoslavia, he was stifled and accused of being a dissident. please read this book

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Case Quarter
indulgence and dogma
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2014
LOOKING AWRY, the title of slavoj zizek's introduction of jacques lacan, is also a method of indirectly approaching lacan's work through critiques of popular fiction and film theory of the films of alfred hitchcock and a few films by other directors who worked, for the most part, in film noir of black and white films.

comments on lacan's work are minimal within the body of zizek's text. the comments pertaining to lacan's work by zizek, function as signs pointing to the notes at the end of the book, and the notes pointing to lacan's writings. zizek's method does manage an introduction to the work of lacan.

in the final section of zizek's text, the political ideas pulled from lacan's writings, seem to belong more to zizek than lacan. remarks made about nationalism under technological advances and the resulting racism of pizza parlors and chinese take-outs correlated with sade and kant were written here before social media, 9-11, and buzz phrases including `post-racial' and `diversity'. our time, our now, might clarify, set right, if not prove to be right or wrong, these prophecies.

an excellent book for hitchcock fans or students who must read lacan, but equally an introduction to the work of slavoj zizek, who, from what the furious noise within the space surrounding him signifies, has gone on to sound off on much begun here by him.

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James Crue
Good book, but read a more measured introductory piece on Lacan before you read this.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016
I liked this book. I read this right after I read Sean Homer's "Jacques Lacan" from the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series. Homer's book properly initiated me into Lacan... I do not believe Zizek's book is a 'proper' introduction into Lacanian theory... it is great reading if you have already read a more measured introduction into Lacan. Bottom line: 'Looking Awry' isn't a great INTRODUCTION into Lacan....but if you are already introduced into Lacan, then "Looking Awry" is good reading.

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