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Žižek, S. (1992) Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan In Hollywood and
Out, London and New York: Routledge.
Picking up on one of the themes of For They Know Not What They
Do, Žižek here attends to the ideology of cynicism - the fetishist 'I
know very well . . . but all the same . . .'formulation which is one of
the mainstays of his work. The book is structured around five chap-
ters, each of which endeavours to explain a fundamental Lacanian
concept - letter, woman, repetition, phallus and father. Hollywood is once again the lure in this text as Zižek elaborates each concept with
reference to popular culture. However, as with Looking Awry, the famil-
iarity of the examples does not necessarily make this the most accessible
of his books to read.
Out, London and New York: Routledge.
Picking up on one of the themes of For They Know Not What They
Do, Žižek here attends to the ideology of cynicism - the fetishist 'I
know very well . . . but all the same . . .'formulation which is one of
the mainstays of his work. The book is structured around five chap-
ters, each of which endeavours to explain a fundamental Lacanian
concept - letter, woman, repetition, phallus and father. Hollywood is once again the lure in this text as Zižek elaborates each concept with
reference to popular culture. However, as with Looking Awry, the famil-
iarity of the examples does not necessarily make this the most accessible
of his books to read.
