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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|300px|right]] '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 [[Categorypostmodernism]] 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)]]. [[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], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860915921/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://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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