This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide
array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory,
queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction
in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a
remarkable return to psychoanalysis in those fields, fields from
which it had been excluded or discredited for a while. This has
changed recently, and we need to understand why. The fourteen
essays make use a freshly minted psychoanalytic concepts to read
diverse texts, films and social practices. The distinguished
authors gathered here, an international group of scholars coming
from Japan, China, Korea, India, Belgium, Greece, France,
Australia, and the USA, are all cognizant of the advances of theory
under the form of deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies
and trauma studies. These essays take into account the latest
developments in Lacanian theory and never bracket off subjective
agency when dealing with literature or film. The authors make sense
of changes brought to psychoanalytical theory by redefinitions of
the Oedipus complex, reconsiderations of the death drive,
applications of Lacan's symptom and the concept of the Real,
reassessments of the links between affect and trauma, insights into
the resilience of Romantic excess and jouissance, awareness of the
role of transference in classical and modernist texts, and
pedagogical techniques aimed at teaching difficult texts, all the
while testifying to the influence on Lacanian theory of thinkers
like Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Melanie Klein, Didier
Anzieu, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Alain
Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Chapter 3 of this book is freely
available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002727
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