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Analysing the Cultural Unconscious - Science of the Signifier (Hardcover)
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Analysing the Cultural Unconscious - Science of the Signifier (Hardcover)
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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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