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This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and
violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is
formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical
legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law
and justice, it considers a range of topics, including: the
relationship between crime fiction, legal reasoning and critique;
questions surrounding the relationship between law and justice;
gender issues; the legal, political and social impacts of fictional
representations of crime and justice; post-colonial perspectives on
crime fiction; as well as the impact of law itself on the crime
fiction's development. Introducing a new sub-field of legal and
literary research, this book will be of enormous interest to
scholars in critical, cultural and socio-legal studies, as well as
to others in criminology, as well as in literature.
This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and
violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is
formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical
legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law
and justice, it considers a range of topics, including: the
relationship between crime fiction, legal reasoning and critique;
questions surrounding the relationship between law and justice;
gender issues; the legal, political and social impacts of fictional
representations of crime and justice; post-colonial perspectives on
crime fiction; as well as the impact of law itself on the crime
fiction's development. Introducing a new sub-field of legal and
literary research, this book will be of enormous interest to
scholars in critical, cultural and socio-legal studies, as well as
to others in criminology, as well as in literature.
'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth' we say in a court of law. 'In a court of law, the truth is
precisely what we will not say', says Lacan. 'If God is dead,
everything is permitted', writes Dostoyevsky. 'If God is dead,
everything is prohibited', responds Lacan. 'I think, therefore I
am', reasons Descartes. 'I am where I do not think', concludes
Lacan. What are we to make of Lacan's inversions of these mottos?
And what are the implications for the legal system if we take them
seriously? This book puts the legal subject on the couch and
explores the incestuous relationship between law and desire,
enjoyment and transgression, freedom and subjection, ethics and
atheism. The process of analysis problematizes fundamental tenets
of the legal system, leading the patient to rethink long-held
beliefs: terms like 'guilt' and 'innocence', 'truth' and 'lies',
'reason' and 'reality', 'freedom' and 'responsibility', 'cause' and
'punishment', acquire new and surprising meanings. By the end of
these sessions, the patient is left wondering, along with Freud her
analyst, whether 'it is not psychology that deserves the mockery
but the procedure of judicial enquiry'. A unique study on the nexus
of Law and Psychoanalysis, this book will interest students and
scholars of both subjects, as well as general readers looking to
explore this perverse and fascinating relationship.
'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth' we say in a court of law. 'In a court of law, the truth is
precisely what we will not say', says Lacan. 'If God is dead,
everything is permitted', writes Dostoyevsky. 'If God is dead,
everything is prohibited', responds Lacan. 'I think, therefore I
am', reasons Descartes. 'I am where I do not think', concludes
Lacan. What are we to make of Lacan's inversions of these mottos?
And what are the implications for the legal system if we take them
seriously? This book puts the legal subject on the couch and
explores the incestuous relationship between law and desire,
enjoyment and transgression, freedom and subjection, ethics and
atheism. The process of analysis problematizes fundamental tenets
of the legal system, leading the patient to rethink long-held
beliefs: terms like 'guilt' and 'innocence', 'truth' and 'lies',
'reason' and 'reality', 'freedom' and 'responsibility', 'cause' and
'punishment', acquire new and surprising meanings. By the end of
these sessions, the patient is left wondering, along with Freud her
analyst, whether 'it is not psychology that deserves the mockery
but the procedure of judicial enquiry'. A unique study on the nexus
of Law and Psychoanalysis, this book will interest students and
scholars of both subjects, as well as general readers looking to
explore this perverse and fascinating relationship.
This book is an original contribution to the field of law and literature. In addition to seeing law as a form of literature, it sees literature as a form of law, and examines the law-making qualities of fiction to explore the fiction-making qualities of law. Its examples range from Greek myth to contemporary writing, film and popular music, and suggest new ways of living with and entering the legal labyrinth. Aristodemou's style is both accessible and entertaining. The book is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates in law as well as other disciplines concerned with law and literature, jurisprudence, and other options addressing the intersections between law and culture.
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