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از نشانگان خود لذت ببرید: ژاک لاکان در هالیوود و بیرون از هالیوود

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Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana," is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis (and life). His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humor are made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa using films such as Marnie and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

388 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1991

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Slavoj Žižek

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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."

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January 30, 2014
What I am finding really fascinating as I read more of Zizek's books on Lacan and Hollywood, or introducing Lacan, or rethinking Lacan, is that many of them rely on the same subject matter--obviously the same Lacanian theories being elucidated, but also the same readings of the same movies and stories presented again and again in different books. For instance, this book, Sublime Object of Ideology, and Looking Awry (and probably others) all have similar discussions of Hitchcock's The Birds as a terrifying encounter with the Real. Of course, I find this example both convincing and illuminating, but its repetition over so many books seems uncannily psychoanalytic.
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September 11, 2024
کتاب شش فصل داره و در حقیقت برای آشنایی مخاطب آمریکائی با روان‌کاو� لاکانی نوشته شده.
1. چرا نامه همیشه به مقصدش می‌رسد�
بررسی مسیر چاپلین از روشنایی‌ها� شهر تا روشنایی‌ها� صحنه و از سینمای صامت به ناطق
2. چرا زن نشانگان مرد است؟
نقد آثار روسلینی از آلمان سال صفر تا دوران برگمن-روسلینی
3. چرا هر عملی یک تکرار است؟ (بهترین فصل کتاب)
تحلیل «تکرارِ» کیرکگور
سقراط در برابر مسیح
نقد آلتوسر و هابرماس با لاکان
4. چرا فالوس ظاهر می‌شود�
پدر مخرجی
پست مدرنیسم
سوژه‌� روشنگری
5. چرا همیشه دو پدر هست؟
تحلیل داستان کاراگاهی نوآر با تاکید بر تفاوت‌ها� ریموند چندلر و دشیل همت (ادامه‌ا� برای فصل مقایسه داستان کاراگاهی کلاسیک و نوآر کژنگریستن)
فقر سوبژکتیو
چشم‌پوش� فرویدی versagung
فوکو همراه با لاکان
6. چرا واقعیت همیشه چندگانه است؟
آیا امکان بازسازی فیلم هیچکاکی وجود دارد؟
ماتریکس و واقعیت مجازی
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دیگه مثل قدیم 22م این ماه رو دوست ندارم. آه نویدکم نوید...
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206 reviews19 followers
March 28, 2022
I saw once an itw of Bret Easton Ellis and they asked him what books he’d buy someone for a first date. I’d definitely buy them a copy of Enjoy Your Symptom. If they didn’t like it I’d be ok too but I’d just be interested in their answer.
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67 reviews3 followers
November 19, 2021
Painfully confusing but also very enjoyable. Probably need to read it 9 more times and watch all of Hitchcock movies.
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Author2 books1 follower
February 15, 2021
Much as Žižek is the clown prince of theory, this is kind of a great book. He's about as approachable as a Lacanian can be. He's really at his best when he is talking about cinema in Lacanian terms. He keeps the Hegel shit on the down low. He's nailed Lacan in properly Catholic terms.
There's a load of his usual antagonisms - there's a chapter 'Why is woman a symptom of man?' where he doesn't explain the chapter's title until the next chapter. Because everyone reading is well aware of the relatively obscure Lacan essay he's referring to and the ways in which it might be observed as not being an outrageous question.

The other side of that is a super brief description of a Lacanian understanding of gender where male is not 'opposed' to female but both act as an 'other' (small o) to self (which is to say 'Žižek said trans rights', inexplicably).

I'm not committed to defending Žižek but if we're going to keep one edgelord theorist I'm voting for him.
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44 reviews
June 2, 2014
While psychoanalysis may not have the same diagnostic use for people, it's still an invaluable tool for analyzing larger societal and cultural issues. Zizek's book wisely sidesteps most clinical diagnoses to cut a wider swath through mostly American culture using fundamental concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis. What results is a book that I'll be unpacking for a very long time and whose explanation of sacrifice and separation, through Lacanian terms, has already paid off in dividends with my close readings of contemporary film.
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62 reviews1 follower
March 9, 2023
Lacan, Cine Noir y Hard boiled, la máscara como un yo asimilado como propio. Muchas reflexiones e ideas fascinantes.
Y además divertido. Quien pensaría que un
Filósofo de la talla de Zizek fuera divertido.
Tiene partes densas que merecen más estudio, pero en general es un libro entretenido.
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40 reviews7 followers
October 1, 2017
Brilliant, prescient, useful and useless invention for the world of alternative facts. Guided by the opposites of the closed-system theories of Freud and the perpetual striving of Marxist otherness. Both seem grounded by a pessimism in the way-things-are, while the interjecting films add an experiential freedom and reality - perhaps the more salient medium for faith and trust because it is deliberately illusionary.
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496 reviews56 followers
July 20, 2023
Me parece que la tesis central en este libro, o al menos la que pude captar, es la inexistencia del Otro como agente de soporte, y nuestro gran esfuerzo por hacerle existir a cada momento, pero también la posibilidad de vivir en el acto, asumiendo esas rupturas que se producen al caer la figura del Otro.

Por otro lado, terminé muy decepcionado de mí mismo porque capto mejor las referencias filosóficas que las cinematográficas, tengo ahí algo que corregir.
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440 reviews4 followers
November 9, 2021
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deep thoughts about some of my favorite films. I don't know very much about Lacan, but reading through this was fascinating. a snippet of explanatory behavior from twin peaks I sent to a lynch, and of course there were great bits about shit. I recently watched Perverts Guide to Cinema, and this was a great companion piece (although with the film you could better see the scenes he's analyzing! but what is reality anyway)
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30 reviews33 followers
September 11, 2008
read some of this, jordan crandall refers to it as the only zizek book you need to read.
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July 17, 2009
Lacanian readings of everything from Chaplin to Twin Peaks. Fun stuff.
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135 reviews17 followers
August 19, 2021
Fuck you Lacan.

A mi juicio, los mejores capítulos y secciones son los dedicados a Hitchcock.
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July 14, 2024
📙 ¡Goza tu síntoma!: En este libro, el autor reflexiona sobre lo simbólico y lo real, a través de una mirada que mezcla el psicoanálisis con la filosofía. Un viaje cinematográfico por clásicos que van desde los años 50 hasta el 2000, y en el que la lectura del autor sobre lo expresado en los filmes tiene múltiple interpretación.
Claves:
֎ Filosofía
֎ Análisis cinéfilo
֎ Psicología de personajes
Opinión 🗣: No había leído nunca un libro como este y el veredicto es: No estaba preparado. Pensé que leer un ensayo iba a ayudarme a no aburrirme de la fantasía, pero pasó todo lo contrario, me esforcé por terminarlo para agarrar un nuevo libro de fantasía.
El autor utiliza su amplio interés en el cine clásico (más en los autores clásicos) para identificar algunos aspectos del psicoanálisis y de la filosofía que se traslucen a través de ellos. Hay muchos pasajes que son sumamente interesantes y te atrapan, pero también hay muchas partes en las que reflexionar sobre las ideas lo lleva a sobrepensar y buscar las más insólitas conexiones, que pueden ser reales, o pueden ser completamente casuales. Por ejemplo: en el final de una película, la protagonista que había sufrido mucho en un pueblo se escapa, vive una nueva vida, y al terminar el film, ella ve en el horizonte el pueblo y termina la película, dando la doble posibilidad si volvía redimida, o si lo dejaba en su pasado. Y con esas posibilidades envuelve la teoría del triunfo de la persona sobre su destino.
Pero hay mucho más de estos ejemplos, y yo no soy un experto en el cine clásico como para sacarle el jugo a este libro. Sí entendí y reflexioné sobre lo que menciona de Twin Peaks, algo de Hitchcock, The Truman Show y gran hermano y la relación de la realidad múltiple o identificando cual es la real realidad en the Matrix.
El libro me sirvió para renovar la mirada sobre las películas y series que veo y como pueden tener múltiples interpretaciones al racionalizar la intensión de los directores o al hacerlo una experiencia propia.
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July 18, 2024
Ik zeg al jaren dat ik meer (of nou ja, überhaupt wat) van Žižek wil lezen, en op een gegeven moment moet je dan de daad bij het woord voegen� Begin deze zomer was ik in Praag en voelde ik me cultureel genoeg onderlegd om tot de aanschaf van dit boek over te gaan. In Enjoy your symptom! legt hij de ideeën van Lacan uit aan de hand van Hollywoodfilms.

De grote kracht van het boek is ook z'n zwakte: als je de films niet helder op je netvlies hebt, begrijp je de metaforen niet. Helaas is het een boek uit 1992 (met een extra hoofdstuk uit 2008) en niet alle blockbusters die Žižek kiest hebben de tand des tijds echt goed doorstaan, of ik heb ze gewoon om wat voor reden dan ook niet gezien� Bij sommige hoofdstukken had ik echt het gevoel dat ik zowel te weinig van filosofie als van films wist om er ook maar íéts van mee te krijgen, en als dan ook alle culturele en politieke referenties van voor je geboorte zijn maakt dat het lezen nogal tot een zware kluif.

Ik heb het meeste leesplezier gehad aan (en inzicht opgedaan uit) de hoofdstukken waarin hij films gebruikt die ik wél had gezien, en dan is het ook duidelijk waarom mensen gek op dit boek waren. Op z'n allerbest is Žižek leerzaam, grappig en slim. Ik heb echt genoten van de delen waarin hij aan films als Logan's Run refereert, verhalen van Hitchcock en de gebr. Coen gebruikt, uitgebreid op De Schreeuw van Munch blijft terugkomen, en van het laatste hoofdstuk over The Matrix. Maar ook dat nieuwere hoofdstuk voelt erg 15-jaar-oud aan als hij het bijvoorbeeld heeft over het inherent voyeuristische van zogeheten "web cam" internetsites waarin je door vreemde mensen kunt worden geobserveerd terwijl je autorijdt of op een plein rondwandelt.

Hier een cijfer op plakken is te ingewikkeld, dus dat ga ik niet doen. De enigelogische conclusie is…Ik moet nog altijd meer Žižek lezen, en dan bij voorkeur binnen 6 maanden nadat hij het geschreven heeft.
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159 reviews
July 31, 2020
Zizek made a lot of very interesting points and overall I enjoyed this book. On the downside, the book is written like a long ramble and is often hard to follow (but I suppose that is typical for Zizek knowing his eccentric nature).
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12 reviews25 followers
July 20, 2022
Dificilisimo de leer, 277 citas en 333 carillas� no solo tenes que entender a Lacan sino que a varios filósofos, así como haberte visto mil películas para entender bien. De todas formas, logra ilustrar ciertas imágenes interesantes. Entendí un 20% del libro
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474 reviews32 followers
August 17, 2022
Some interesting insights, especially in the final chapter about the matrix and how people perceive contemporary life, but I’d be lying if I said I felt I understood Lacan (or even Hitchcock, who Zizek refers back to often) any more than before.
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November 30, 2019
It took a while. This book is packed with ideas and side trips and wow!! This dude has quite the brain. Very good very complex.
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February 17, 2020
I started off very cold on this and wondered why people kept recommending that I Zizek but it really grew in me as I went. A few interesting ideas to think over.
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May 11, 2020
A Lacanian analysis of film noir/ Hitchcock that spirals into a discussion of my usual bag. It centered around the moral dilemma of a forced choice.
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February 8, 2024
Psicoanálisis en acción. Exquisito texto muy rebuscado por momentos pero apasionante
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March 20, 2024
A brilliant and bristling bricolage.

Cultural criticism rendered in Zizek's convoluted, yet inimitable style. Across 6 chapters and several fistfuls of movies, the book walks through humanity’s postmodern condition and examines its various neuroses. I'd give it 3.5 stars, if I could.

We’re treated to Lacanian psychoanalysis of topics such as masculinity, authority, reality, pain, perception, sacrifice, and more. Several prominent filmmakers and authors serve as powerful lenses of those subjects, including Rossellini, Chandler, Hammett, Hitchcock, Kant, Foucault, Kierkegaard, and Wachowski.

To be clear, this should not be the first work of Zizek’s you should pick up, as he doesn’t shy away from dense vocabulary and complex concepts. But if you hold onto his pop cultural tethers, you can make it through one chapter at a time.

Specifically, by the time he gets to chapter six’s discussion of reality, remakes, and perspectives, he delivers some trenchant observations about the nature of our current sociopolitical culture. His commentary on the trifold nature of celebrity authority, political action, and conspiracy theories is especially biting as we prepare to enter 2022.

A mentally tough read, but worth it.
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