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[[Image:EverythingLacan.jpg |right|frame]]Žižek, S. (ed.) (1992) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan(But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), London and New York: Verso.As loyal Žižek readers will know, no Žižek book is complete withouta reference to an Alfred Hitchcock film. Here, what is usually just anincidental affection for the director's work is expanded to a book-length passion. Žižek and the other authors in this volume (includingFredric Jameson and Mladen Dolar) adopt what Žižek describes as atransferential relationship towards Hitchcock, one which allows thateven the smallest details of his films are meaningful. This 'meaning-fulness' extends to the fact that, for Žižek, Hitchcock's films portraythe three main types of subjectivity which correspond to the threemain stages of capitalism. Probably the best of the books edited byŽižek (although well over a third is actually written by him as well),this is a very entertaining and accessible mixture of film studies andpsychoanalysis.{{BBSZ}}
=====Book Description=====[[CategoryImage:WorksEverything.You.Always.Wanted.To.Know.About.Lacan.jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]] 'A modernist work of art is by definition 'incomprehensible'; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated. What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: it objects par excellence are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange their initial homeliness: 'you think what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the difference between symptom and ''sinthom''/the structure of the Borromean knot/the fact that Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father ... you've totally missed the point!' if there is an author whose name epitomises this interpretive pleasure of 'estranging' the most banal content, it is Alfred Hitchcock (and - useless to deny it - this book partakes unrestrainedly in this madness).'  Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, as an exemplar of 'postmodern' defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning', the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analysed to reveal a rich proliferation of ideological and psychic mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock is here also a bait to lure the reader into 'serious' Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies. =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Everything You Always Wanted Yo Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid To Ask Hitchcock)]]. [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]], Editor. London; New York: Verso, 1992. Paperback, 279 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0860915921. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk]or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>|} {{CBBSZ}}
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