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The End of Dissatisfaction?
- Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
Engelsk Paperback
The End of Dissatisfaction?
- Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
Engelsk Paperback

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Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC

Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zðizûek, Joan Copjec, and Theresa Brennan to argue that we are in the midst of a large-scale transformation-a shift from a society oriented around prohibition (i.e., the notion that one cannot just do as one pleases) to one oriented around enjoyment. McGowan identifies many of the social ills of American culture today as symptoms of this transformation: the sense of disconnection, the increase in aggression and violence, widespread cynicism, political apathy, incivility, and loss of meaning. Discussing these various symptoms, he examines various texts from film, literature, popular culture, and everyday life, including Toni Morrison''s Paradise, Tony Kushner''s Angels in America, and such films as Dead Poets Society and Trigger Effect. Paradoxically, The End of Dissatisfaction? shows how the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780791459683
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0791459683
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Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2003
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2003
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