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The second book in the Chardin Chronicles, For Generations to Come,
continues the saga of three men who must confront the consequences
of their past choices and learn how those choices will determine
their futures, for better or worse. After serving in the military
of the Unified Territories in a war of attrition against the people
of Torkos, the disillusioned Major Joe Horgon returns home ten
years later to find his home irrevocably changed. There are new
forces at work in the Unified Territories, forces that prove to be
dangerous to Joe and his family. His neighborhood is in shambles,
street gangs are the ones in charge, and Joe's wife and son are
missing. Determined to find them, Joe sets out to rescue his
family. Along the way, he encounters a formidable enemy. A
charismatic gang leader known as the Gent has conspired with High
Priest Morthuza to give gang members a serum that creates a more
powerful warrior. He rules the streets and intends to wipe out any
who oppose him. Joe's search brings him face to face with the Gent,
and in this epic battle of wills, there can only be one survivor.
Lacan's four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. This book
provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either
French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four
Fundamental concepts of Psychoanalysis.
Within a fabric of hope and tragedy, promises and betrayals, "The
Loss of Innocence" introduces an epic tale among its three major
characters of revenge and greed, war and intrigue, and the
struggles between government and religion."The Loss of Innocence"
explores the effects of childhood psychological trauma and the ways
in which different individuals respond in their own unique ways.
Joe Horgon, Chardin the High Priest, and Chardin must each overcome
their childhood expectations that become shattered by the choices
they make or others make for them. As adults, they will be held
responsible for their actions and the effects of these on all those
around them. The backdrop for this is the clash of cultures between
the simple people of Torkos and the powerful Unified Territories.
What begins as a big country seeking to capture and devour a
smaller prey, turns into a war between good and evil, between
governments and religion in which everyone may end up a loser.
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and... brings together
essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively
interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew
Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman
reads the "sound of O" in Othello; Jane Gallop asks "Why does Freud
giggle when the women leave the room?"; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan
examines Lacan's seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating
collection of work should still be required reading, especially for
students of literature. But Psychoanalysis and... demonstrates that
psychoanalysis - and theoretical criticism, and feminism, and
Lacanian theory, and semiotics, and Marxism, and deconstruction,
and literary criticism - was, at the time, a rich and expanding
terrain.
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and... brings together
essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively
interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew
Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman
reads the "sound of O" in Othello; Jane Gallop asks "Why does Freud
giggle when the women leave the room?"; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan
examines Lacan's seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating
collection of work should still be required reading, especially for
students of literature. But Psychoanalysis and... demonstrates that
psychoanalysis - and theoretical criticism, and feminism, and
Lacanian theory, and semiotics, and Marxism, and deconstruction,
and literary criticism - was, at the time, a rich and expanding
terrain.
The second book in the Chardin Chronicles, For Generations to Come,
continues the saga of three men who must confront the consequences
of their past choices and learn how those choices will determine
their futures, for better or worse. After serving in the military
of the Unified Territories in a war of attrition against the people
of Torkos, the disillusioned Major Joe Horgon returns home ten
years later to find his home irrevocably changed. There are new
forces at work in the Unified Territories, forces that prove to be
dangerous to Joe and his family. His neighborhood is in shambles,
street gangs are the ones in charge, and Joe's wife and son are
missing. Determined to find them, Joe sets out to rescue his
family. Along the way, he encounters a formidable enemy. A
charismatic gang leader known as the Gent has conspired with High
Priest Morthuza to give gang members a serum that creates a more
powerful warrior. He rules the streets and intends to wipe out any
who oppose him. Joe's search brings him face to face with the Gent,
and in this epic battle of wills, there can only be one survivor.
Within a fabric of hope and tragedy, promises and betrayals, "The
Loss of Innocence" introduces an epic tale among its three major
characters of revenge and greed, war and intrigue, and the
struggles between government and religion. "The Loss of Innocence"
explores the effects of childhood psychological trauma and the ways
in which different individuals respond in their own unique ways.
Joe Horgon, Chardin the High Priest, and Chardin must each overcome
their childhood expectations that become shattered by the choices
they make or others make for them. As adults, they will be held
responsible for their actions and the effects of these on all those
around them. The backdrop for this is the clash of cultures between
the simple people of Torkos and the powerful Unified Territories.
What begins as a big country seeking to capture and devour a
smaller prey, turns into a war between good and evil, between
governments and religion in which everyone may end up a loser.
If our so-called culture war seems all on the side of the right,
there's no reason. It is all in their heads. From the beleaguered -
some would say baffled - silence on the left, this book at long
last emerges with a devastating diagnosis of the "debate" over
political correctness. Written with refreshing clarity and wit,
"Political correctness" describes a cultural non-phenomenon brought
into being by the desires of new-conservatives. Nostalgic for the
simple moral logic of the Cold War, the conservative right has
created an evil empire within and conferred upon its enemies - from
multiculturalists to postmodernists and poststructuralists - an
agenda that demands action from the high-minded. What clearly marks
this as a projection, Richard Feldstein points out, is the moralism
attributed to the forces of political correctness by their
conservative critics. And where, in fact, do we find the obsessive
fixation on judgement, morality, and correct and appropriate
behaviour, that might make political correctness so reprehensible?
It is, Feldstein argues, a central feature of right-wing thinking,
projected onto those who reject such black-and-white, good-and-bad
views as naive. "Political correctness" defines this procedure in
comparison with the process of psychological projection, in which
consciousness transfer onto others what it cannot tolerate. In the
case of cultural projection, Feldstein says, the transference is
often intentional. This book is not just an essential tool to
understanding the way the right deploys this powerful weapon; it is
a guide to resisting the cynical use of these tactics in our
media-saturated society, one that acknowledges the complexity of
life in our multicultural, postmodern world.
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has
been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of
Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection
is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma,
historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays
range from investigations of particular art forms such as music and
tragedy to clinical studies of melancholia, depression, anxiety,
and other somatic phenomena that have a symbolic or psychic
dimension. As a whole, the book explores the breakdown of meaning
and the failure of social and political structures, which Lacan
addresses through the category of the Real, and it offers
English-speaking readers a variety of new perspectives on Lacan and
psychoanalysis.
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