
The Subject of Liberation
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How Zizek used Lacan's theory of character structures is examined here to describe this theoretical deadlock and explain how the dominant contemporary ideologies of liberal tolerant multiculturalism and reactionary "pseudo-fundamentalism" compete to mobilize the individual subject's unconscious drive to enjoyment. The book thus emphasizes the moments in which Zizek hints that Lacanian theory may describe a practice that facilitates the resolution of antagonisms that placate radical leftist politics. It challenges prevalent interpretations of Lacanian ends of analysis, to ultimately connect the psychoanalytic cure to the leftist project of social and political liberation.
The Subject of Liberation argues that if Lacan is to be useful to leftist politics, then the left has to develop its own definitions of the post-analytic subject, and proposes one such definition developed out of Lacanian and Zizekian theory.
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In this quixotic reading of Zizek's The Ticklish Subject Charles Wells provides a refreshingly personal yet political plea for revisiting the subject of liberation. Wells takes his readers to a journey that traces the path of leftist politics to a subject whose liberation requires as much imagination as courage. He bids his readers to begin right here. * Engin Isin, The Open University, UK * In this thought-provoking and eminently readable book, Wells manages to unpack some of the densest passages in Zizek's 'theory of liberation' by distilling their political core. This is no small achievement. * Fabio Vighi, Cardiff University, UK, and author of On Zizek's Dialectics (2010) *More details
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Introduction: The Subject of Liberation
I: THE PROBLEM
1. How to Read the Ticklish Subject
2. Leftist Philosophy and Lacan's Theory of Character Structures
II: THE SUBJECT, IDEOLOGY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
3. The Zizekian Universal Subject
4. Ideology: The Big Other, The Symbolic Mandate, and The Social Superego
5. Freedom and Responsibility: The Liberatory Promise of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
III: CONTEMPORARY IDEOLOGIES
6. The Problem of Postmodernity: A Life of Pleasures
7. The Postmodern Social Superego: Reflexive Sadomasochism
8. The Unholy Conspiracy: Postmodern Ideology and (Pseudo-)Fundamentalism
IV: GOING THROUGH THE DEADLOCK
9. Antagonism in the Real
10. The Theory of the Four Fundamental Discourses
11. The Deadlock of Lacanian Ethics and the Analytic Moment
V: POST-ANALYTIC SUBJECTS
12. The Post-Analytic Subject 1: The Analyst
13. The Post-Analytic Subject 2: The Lover
14. Post-Analytic Philosophies
VI: LIBERATED SOCIETIES
15. Liberated Societies 1: A Universal Right to Psychoanalysis and the Antagonistic Society
16. Liberated Societies 2: A Society of Analysts
Conclusion: Go, Bid the Soldiers Shoot!
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