Enjoy Your Symptom! (Second edition)

Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

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by Slavoj Zizek

Routledge

Due/Published April 2001, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 0415928125

Zizek is back with a new edition of his book on film, psychoanalysis (and life). His blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and humor are here made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis--and vice versa. Why does the phallus appear? Why is woman a symptom of man? Why are there always two fathers? These typical Zizek questions are explained by means of such films as Marnie and The Man Who Knew Too Much. The big difference between this and the original edition is the new substantial final chapter, which focuses on the fantasmatic support of the notion of reality.

Contents

Introduction
1. Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination
1.1 Death and Sublimation: The Final Scene of City Lights
1.2 Imaginary, Symbolic, Real
2. Why is Woman a Symptom of a Man?
2.1Why is Suicide the Only Successful Act?
2.2 The "Night of the World"
3. Why Is Every Act a Repetition?
3.1 Beyond "Distributive Justice"
3.2 Idenitity and Authority
4. Why Does the Phallus Appear?
4.1 Grimaces of the Real
4.2 Phallophany of the Anal Father
5. Why are there Always TwoFathers?
5.1 At the Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father
5.2 Die Versagung
6. Why is Reality Always Multiple
6.1 Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film
6.2 The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perverison
Index