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Book SynopsisZizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy.
Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades."
Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford "The Zizek Reader is an excellent introduction to his thinking and contains the first systematic criticism of his work, in editorial introductions to each essay. In his own preface, Zizek makes his gambit explicit by his categorical rejection of the 'hegemonic trends' of today's academia." The Independent
Table of ContentsPreface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part I: Culture 9
1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment: How popular culture can serve as an Introduction to Lacan 11
2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity 37
3. The Spectre of Ideology 53
4. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach 87
5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?102
Part II: Woman 125
6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist' 127
7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing 148
8. There is No Sexual Relationship 174
9. Death and the Maiden 206
Part III: Philosophy 223
10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology 225
11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces 251
12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You 268
13. Kant with (or against) Sade 283
14. Of Cells and Selves 302
Slavoj iek: Bibliography of Worlds in English 321
Index 323
