Looking Awry

An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

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by Slavoj Zizek

MIT Press

Due/Published August 1992, 188 pages, paper

ISBN 026274015x

In this book, Zizek 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.

"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." -- Frederic R. Jameson (an old quote, obviously)Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

I. How Real Is Reality?
1. From Reality to the Real
The Paradoxes of Objet Petit a
A Black Hole in Reality

2. The Real and Its Vicissitudes
How the Real Returns and Answers
How the Real Is Rendered and Knows

3. Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire
The Sherlock Holmes Way
The Philip Marlowe Way

II. One Can Never Know Too Much about Hitchcock"The Unconscious Is Outside"
Ladies Who Vanish

5. The Hitchcockian Blot
The Phallic Anamorphosis
The Maternal Superego

6. Pornography, Nostalgia, Montage: A Traid of the Gaze
The Perverse Short Circuit
The Hitchcockian Cut

III. Fantasy, Bureaucracy, Democracy
7. The Ideological Sinthome
Gaze and Voice as Objects
"Love Thy Sinthome as Thyself"

8. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity
The Postmodernist Break
Bureaucracy and Enjoyment

9. Formal Democracy and Its Discontents
Toward and Ethic of Fantasy
The Nation-Thing

 Notes
Index of Works Cited(October Books)