Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock (1992) edited by Slavoj Žižek
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| Slavoj Žižek | |
| Verso Books (1992) | |
| ISBN 0860915921 (paperback) | |
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Synopsis
'A modernist work of art is by definition 'incomprehensible'; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated. What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: it objects par excellence are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange their initial homeliness: 'you think what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the difference between symptom and sinthom/the structure of the Borromean knot/the fact that Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father ... you've totally missed the point!' if there is an author whose name epitomises this interpretive pleasure of 'estranging' the most banal content, it is Alfred Hitchcock (and - useless to deny it - this book partakes unrestrainedly in this madness).' Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, as an exemplar of 'postmodern' defamiliarization
Contents
- Alfred Hitchcock, or, the form and its historical mediation — Slavoj Žižek
- Hitchcockian Suspense — Pascal Bonitzer
- Hitchcock's Objects — Mladen Dolar
- Spatial systems in North by Northwest — Frederic Jameson
- A perfect place to die : theatre in Hitchcock's films — Alenka Zupančič
- Punctum caecum, or, of insight and blindness — Stojan Pelko
- Hitchcockian sinthoms — Slavoj Žižek
- The spectator who knew too much — Mladen Dolar
- The Cipher of Destiny — Michel Chion
- A father who is not quite dead — Mladen Dolar
- Notorious — Pascal Bonitzer
- The Fourth Side — Michel Chion
- The man behind his own retina — Miran Božovič
- The Skin and the Straw — Pascal Bonitzer
- The right man and the wrong woman — Renata Salecl
- The Impossible Embodiment — Michel Chion
- 'In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large' — Slavoj Žižek
Reviews
- Film Quarterly (1993) - Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) : Slavoj Zizek
- Hitchcock Annual (1993) - Hitchcock in Hollywood / Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan
