دانلود کتاب Enjoy Your Symptoms!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out

The present book was written with a view to bringing
to public notice the nullity of cynical distance. Its subtitle is not to be
taken ironically: it simply refers to the two divisions of each chapter. As
it is indicated by their didactic titles ("Why ..." ), the aim of each of the
five chapters is to elucidate some fundamental Lacanian notion or theoretical
complex (letter, woman, repetition, phallus, father). In the first
division of each chapter, Lacan is "in Hollywood," i.e., the notion or
complex in question is explained by way of examples from Hollywood
or popular culture in general; in the second division, we are "out of
Hollywood," i.e., the same notion is elaborated as it is "in itself," in its
inherent content. Or, to put it in Hegelese: Hollywood is conceived as a
"phenomenology" of the Lacanian Spirit, its appearing for the common
consciousness, whereas the second division is closer to the "logic" qua
articulation of the notional content in and for itself.