Tony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Slavoj Zizek's key ideas,
explaining the main influences on his thought (most crucially his engagement
with Lacanian psychoanalysis) using examples drawn from popular culture and
everyday life. Myers outlines the key issues that Zizek's work has tackled.Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and
psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye
alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the
political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's
a chicken, from the ethicial heroism of Keanu Reeves in speed , to what toilet
designs reveal about the national psyche. Tony Myers provides a clear and
engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas, explaining the main influences on Zizek's
thought, most crucially his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis, using
examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life. Myers outlines the key
issues that Zizek's work has tackled, including: * What is a Subject and why is
it so important? * The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real * What is so
terrible about Postmodernity? * How can we distinguish reality from ideology? *
What is the relationship between men and women? * Why is Racism always a
fantasy?; Slavoj Zizek is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the
thought of the critic whom Terry Eagleton has described as "the most formidably
brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to
have emerged in Europe for some decades."
