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Fetish : an erotics of culture

By: Material type: TextTextIthaca, NY Cornell University Press c1999Description: x, 200p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801485371
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF175.4.S65 K75 1999
Contents:
Introduction: Fetish and the gaze. Part 1 - Introducing Lacan. 1 The song not the singer: signifier, objet a, fetish. 2 Body and text: the roots of the unconscious. Part 2 - Fetish. 3 A slave to desire: defetishizing the colonial subject. 4 Fetish and the native subject. Part 3 - Socializing the psychic: from interpellation to gaze. 5 Interpellation, antagonism, repetition. 6 The ambassador's body: unscreening the gaze. 7 The vice of the virtual witness. 8 Seeing texts. Part 4 - Interpassivity and the postmodern. 9 Interpassivity and the knowing wink: mystery science theater 3000. 10 Crash and subversion. Appendix - The Oedipus connection
Abstract: '...a compelling and original argument for the importance of psychoanalytic theory to culutural studies....Of course, the value of any such project has to be measured by its ability to enable new critical practices and insights. Krips takes up this challenge, embodying his theoretical work in a series of innovative readings of diverse cultural texts.'
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Introduction: Fetish and the gaze. Part 1 - Introducing Lacan. 1 The song not the singer: signifier, objet a, fetish. 2 Body and text: the roots of the unconscious. Part 2 - Fetish. 3 A slave to desire: defetishizing the colonial subject. 4 Fetish and the native subject. Part 3 - Socializing the psychic: from interpellation to gaze. 5 Interpellation, antagonism, repetition. 6 The ambassador's body: unscreening the gaze. 7 The vice of the virtual witness. 8 Seeing texts. Part 4 - Interpassivity and the postmodern. 9 Interpassivity and the knowing wink: mystery science theater 3000. 10 Crash and subversion. Appendix - The Oedipus connection

'...a compelling and original argument for the importance of psychoanalytic theory to culutural studies....Of course, the value of any such project has to be measured by its ability to enable new critical practices and insights. Krips takes up this challenge, embodying his theoretical work in a series of innovative readings of diverse cultural texts.'

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