- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (3 July 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262240319
- ISBN-13: 978-0262240314
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.3 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,678,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A Hegelian and a Lacanian Hitchcock has my vote! "Looking Awry" is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture; and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years."--Fredric R. Jameson
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" Looking Awry is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture, and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years." Fredric R. Jameson , Duke University "A Hegelian and a Lacanian Hitchcock has my vote! Looking Awry is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture; and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years." Fredric R. Jameson " i ek 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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This is early Zizek, and a good example as to why he is popular; as he combines Hegel and Lacan with popular culture. After all, we have all seen those Hitchcock films he discusses, but has Zizek?
Perhaps he was just confused, but the instrument played by Michael Redgrave in the Lady Vanishes is not a Flute and thus his analogy with The Magic Flute, fails entirely. Surely even Zizek must have noticed that it was a Clarinet - an instrument far more appropriate to an ethno-musicologist; Redgrave's part.
Perhaps Zizek employs researchers?
By the way, heretical though it is to say so the 1979 remake is an infinitely better film in every respect - better (suitably sub-Straussian) music, better acting, more plausible leading actors (Redgrave was never leading man material and making the two leads Americans is not merely more convincing but sets them off against the English actors better), more focused (a full acknowledgement that it is Nazis they are up against), more realistic, and a Chalders and Caldicott who are actually funny.
Perhaps he was just confused, but the instrument played by Michael Redgrave in the Lady Vanishes is not a Flute and thus his analogy with The Magic Flute, fails entirely. Surely even Zizek must have noticed that it was a Clarinet - an instrument far more appropriate to an ethno-musicologist; Redgrave's part.
Perhaps Zizek employs researchers?
By the way, heretical though it is to say so the 1979 remake is an infinitely better film in every respect - better (suitably sub-Straussian) music, better acting, more plausible leading actors (Redgrave was never leading man material and making the two leads Americans is not merely more convincing but sets them off against the English actors better), more focused (a full acknowledgement that it is Nazis they are up against), more realistic, and a Chalders and Caldicott who are actually funny.
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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful
This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns
21 Sep 2002
Format:Paperback
Jacques Lacan's theories are completely, utterly undecipherable. The only way to begin to understand the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory is to read somebody else writing on Lacan. And thank God Zizek does that for us. To understand Lacan, I've always had to turn to film theory critism--Laura Mulvey--but none of that ever goes beyond theories of the gaze, neglecting to dispell the mystery around some of the most basic concepts of Lacan. Zizek rolls through these various terms and ideas, always providing an exemplification of the idea in popular culture, usually in Hitchcock or within Sci-Fi genres, and then a clear-to-understand definition. So if you're confused as to what desire, drive, lack, objet a, other, Other, the Real, or the Thing are in terms of Lacanian jargon, this might be your book.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Lacanian heresy inside! Beware of being tainted!
4 Oct 2004
Format:Paperback
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.
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Perfect - if that's what you want.
15 May 2004
Format:Paperback
That's what I wanted, at least: An illustration of the key Lacanian concepts. What Zizek'bokk gives you, in fact, is the key to reading Lacan.
Lacan's seminar is an unreadable text - if that's your first/second/third etc. time. Lacan, you see, does not make conclusions. To illustrate that:
- You are writing a paper on, let's say, "Gaze". You would like to know what's Lacan's take on gaze. You open "On Gaze as Object a" chapter from "Four Fundamentals".
- you read a paragraph. You do not quite understand what you have read.
- you read the following paragraph. Now, understanding this one is even more difficult, because Lacan is assuming that you have fully understood the previous one. Ok, third paragragh ... Should I continue?
- You either think that this book is non-sense or that you are stupid. Both conclusions are wrong.
As soon as you get the background - Lacan's non-sense makes perfect sense. Zizek give this background in a highly entertaining manner (his writing is a jewel - keeps you thinking "If only I could write like that!"). I am currently doing a PhD in literature, and I have to go through plenty of academic rubbish - dry and actually, useless critical books, that make use of Lacan, Foucault and others to get published and never be read. Zizec is a breath of fresh air.
Please believe me - do not give up on Lacan, do not call him bad names, (like "idiotic nonsense, nobody ever understood him, they were all pretending to understand him because they were afraid to look stupid in the 60s") - before you read Zizec.
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