2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory
ISBN-10
3319694448
ISBN-13
9783319694443
Series
2001
Category
Psychology
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
2018-01-18
Publisher
Springer
Author
Daniel Bristow

Description

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did. He extends Lacan’s late topological insights, delves into conceptualisations of desire, in G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, and Lacan himself, and deals with the major themes of cuts (filmic and psychoanalytic); space; silence; surreality; and ‘das Ding’, in relation to the movie’s enigmatic monolith. This book is a tour de force of psychoanalytic theory and space odyssey that will appeal to academics and practitioners of psychoanalysis and film studies, as well as to any fan of Kubrick’s work.

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