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Analysing the Cultural Unconscious Science of the Signifier

Rösing, Lilian Munk Jøker Bjerre, Henrik Hansen, Brian Benjamin Se alle
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350088368
Publisert
2020-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Redaktør
Rösing, Lilian Munk
Jøker Bjerre, Henrik
Hansen, Brian Benjamin
Hyldgaard, Kirsten
Rosendal, Jakob

Om bidragsyterne

Lilian Munk Rösing is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She has published four books (three in Danish, one in English) and a large number of articles combining psychoanalysis with literary and cultural criticism. Latest publication: Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric’s Guide to Animation (2016).

Analysing the Cultural Unconscious Science of the Signifier

Rösing, Lilian Munk Jøker Bjerre, Henrik Hansen, Brian Benjamin Se alle
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
Rösing, Lilian Munk Jøker Bjerre, Henrik Hansen, Brian Benjamin Se alle
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The problem of applied psychoanalysis has historically been unsolvable. But now, the appearance of <i>Analysing the Cultural Unconscious</i> provides a whole new way of thinking about moving from a psychoanalysis focused on the individual to cultural psychoanalysis. Assembling a wide array of top psychoanalytic theorists, this collection opens up a previously unexplored path to thinking psychoanalytically about culture.

Todd McGowan, Professor, University of Vermont, United States

Tremendously smart, topical and diverse in its address, this collection really does ‘work’ the signifier as it promises. These superb essays remind one (not that it is possible to forget) that psychoanalysis is always speaking – out of turn, out of time, but never untimely.

Sigi Jöttkandt, Senior Lecturer in English, University of New South Wales, Australia

What are we doing when taking psychoanalysis from the couch to the analysis of society, culture, and arts? How is it possible to do so? How is it possible to move from singular experiences to universal structures detected in culture and society? Could psychoanalysis applied to art works become more sensitive to their aesthetics form? Psychoanalysis is often disclaimed as non-scientific, since its main object – the unconscious – has no positive existence. This book, however, proposes psychoanalysis to be a “science of the signifier”. It takes as its object the signifier – the signifying part of the sign – insisting that it always says more (or less) than intended, because its very materiality carries unintended messages. By defining the object of psychoanalysis as the signifier, this volume argues that we can speak of psychoanalysis as a science, even if it is closer to semiotics than biology. Analysing the Cultural Unconscious builds on this idea by arguing that the analysis of the signifier is the way to understand not only the individual unconscious, but also the cultural one. Replacing a person’s monologue on the couch with ideology criticism or a piece of art, applied psychoanalysis allows us to analyse culture and the arts in a new way, uncovering the cultural unconscious.
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Introduction Part I: Science and the Signifier I.1 “The Cunning of the Signifier”, Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University, Denmark) I.2 “The Echo of the Signifier in the Body: On Drives Today”, Juliet Flower MacCannell (University of California, USA) I.3 “Secret in the Body – the Fantasy Structure of Genes and Brains”, Renata Salecl (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Birkbeck College, UK) Part II: From Couch to Culture II.1 “Drives and Culture”, Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and European Graduate School, Switzerland) II.2 Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and the Four Discourses, Kirsten Hyldgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) II.3 “Courtly Capitalism”, Center for Wild Analysis II.4 “Is there a Way out of the Capitalist Discourse?”, René Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen) Part III: Application III.1 “Examples and Surplus-Meaning”, Brian Benjamin Hansen (VIA University College, Denmark) III.2 "Literature as Philosophy of the Real: Ethics and Sexual Difference in Coetzee’s Disgrace", Kari Jegerstedt (University of Bergen, Norway) III.3 “When I am Beside Myself”, Linus Nicolai Carlsen (University of Copenhagen) III.4 “Analysis Sounds Boring – Is there an Analytical Potential in Modern Electronic Music?”, Anders Ruby (Aarhus University, Denmark) Part IV: Materiality and the Signifier IV.1 “Lol V. Stein to the Letter”, Ida Nissen Bjerre (University of Copenhagen) IV.2 "Lacan and the Archeology of the Subject", Carin Franzén (Linköping University, Sweden) IV.3 “The Signifiers of Cherry Ripe – On the Trauma and Repetition of an Art-historical Motif”, Jakob Rosendal (The Women’s Museum, Denmark) (editor: Lilian Munk Rösing, University of Copenhagen) IV.4 “Colour of Flesh, Flesh of Colour”, Lilian Munk Rösing (University of Copenhagen)
Les mer
Identifying it as the “science of the signifier”, this book uncovers how psychoanalysis allows us to analyse not only the individual, but also the cultural unconscious.
Contributions from a series of esteemed and highly skilled international scholars

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The problem of applied psychoanalysis has historically been unsolvable. But now, the appearance of <i>Analysing the Cultural Unconscious</i> provides a whole new way of thinking about moving from a psychoanalysis focused on the individual to cultural psychoanalysis. Assembling a wide array of top psychoanalytic theorists, this collection opens up a previously unexplored path to thinking psychoanalytically about culture.

Todd McGowan, Professor, University of Vermont, United States

Tremendously smart, topical and diverse in its address, this collection really does ‘work’ the signifier as it promises. These superb essays remind one (not that it is possible to forget) that psychoanalysis is always speaking – out of turn, out of time, but never untimely.

Sigi Jöttkandt, Senior Lecturer in English, University of New South Wales, Australia

What are we doing when taking psychoanalysis from the couch to the analysis of society, culture, and arts? How is it possible to do so? How is it possible to move from singular experiences to universal structures detected in culture and society? Could psychoanalysis applied to art works become more sensitive to their aesthetics form? Psychoanalysis is often disclaimed as non-scientific, since its main object – the unconscious – has no positive existence. This book, however, proposes psychoanalysis to be a “science of the signifier”. It takes as its object the signifier – the signifying part of the sign – insisting that it always says more (or less) than intended, because its very materiality carries unintended messages. By defining the object of psychoanalysis as the signifier, this volume argues that we can speak of psychoanalysis as a science, even if it is closer to semiotics than biology. Analysing the Cultural Unconscious builds on this idea by arguing that the analysis of the signifier is the way to understand not only the individual unconscious, but also the cultural one. Replacing a person’s monologue on the couch with ideology criticism or a piece of art, applied psychoanalysis allows us to analyse culture and the arts in a new way, uncovering the cultural unconscious.
Les mer
Introduction Part I: Science and the Signifier I.1 “The Cunning of the Signifier”, Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University, Denmark) I.2 “The Echo of the Signifier in the Body: On Drives Today”, Juliet Flower MacCannell (University of California, USA) I.3 “Secret in the Body – the Fantasy Structure of Genes and Brains”, Renata Salecl (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Birkbeck College, UK) Part II: From Couch to Culture II.1 “Drives and Culture”, Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and European Graduate School, Switzerland) II.2 Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and the Four Discourses, Kirsten Hyldgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) II.3 “Courtly Capitalism”, Center for Wild Analysis II.4 “Is there a Way out of the Capitalist Discourse?”, René Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen) Part III: Application III.1 “Examples and Surplus-Meaning”, Brian Benjamin Hansen (VIA University College, Denmark) III.2 "Literature as Philosophy of the Real: Ethics and Sexual Difference in Coetzee’s Disgrace", Kari Jegerstedt (University of Bergen, Norway) III.3 “When I am Beside Myself”, Linus Nicolai Carlsen (University of Copenhagen) III.4 “Analysis Sounds Boring – Is there an Analytical Potential in Modern Electronic Music?”, Anders Ruby (Aarhus University, Denmark) Part IV: Materiality and the Signifier IV.1 “Lol V. Stein to the Letter”, Ida Nissen Bjerre (University of Copenhagen) IV.2 "Lacan and the Archeology of the Subject", Carin Franzén (Linköping University, Sweden) IV.3 “The Signifiers of Cherry Ripe – On the Trauma and Repetition of an Art-historical Motif”, Jakob Rosendal (The Women’s Museum, Denmark) (editor: Lilian Munk Rösing, University of Copenhagen) IV.4 “Colour of Flesh, Flesh of Colour”, Lilian Munk Rösing (University of Copenhagen)
Les mer
Identifying it as the “science of the signifier”, this book uncovers how psychoanalysis allows us to analyse not only the individual, but also the cultural unconscious.
Contributions from a series of esteemed and highly skilled international scholars

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350088368
Publisert
2020-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Redaktør
Rösing, Lilian Munk
Jøker Bjerre, Henrik
Hansen, Brian Benjamin
Hyldgaard, Kirsten
Rosendal, Jakob

Om bidragsyterne

Lilian Munk Rösing is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She has published four books (three in Danish, one in English) and a large number of articles combining psychoanalysis with literary and cultural criticism. Latest publication: Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric’s Guide to Animation (2016).

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