Author : Gautam Basu Thakur,Jonathan Michael Dickstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319638171
Lacan and the Nonhuman by Gautam Basu Thakur,Jonathan Michael Dickstein Pdf
This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic – the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject; explore implications of Lacanian teachings in relation to the environment, freedom, and biopolitics; and investigate the subjective enjoyments of and anxieties over nonhumans in literature, film, and digital media. This innovative volume fills a valuable gap in the literature, extending investigations into an important and topical strand of the social sciences for both analytic and pedagogical purposes.