Analysing the Cultural Unconscious

Science of the Signifier

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvLilian Munk Rösing,Henrik Jøker Bjerre,Brian Benjamin Hansen,Kirsten Hyldgaard,Jakob Rosendal

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What are we doing when taking psychoanalysis from the couch to the analysis of society, culture, and arts? How is it possible to do so? How is it possible to move from singular experiences to universal structures detected in culture and society? Could psychoanalysis applied to art works become more sensitive to their aesthetics form?Psychoanalysis is often disclaimed as non-scientific, since its main object – the unconscious – has no positive existence. This book, however, proposes psychoanalysis to be a “science of the signifier”. It takes as its object the signifier – the signifying part of the sign – insisting that it always says more (or less) than intended, because its very materiality carries unintended messages. By defining the object of psychoanalysis as the signifier, this volume argues that we can speak of psychoanalysis as a science, even if it is closer to semiotics than biology. Analysing the Cultural Unconscious builds on this idea by arguing that the analysis of the signifier is the way to understand not only the individual unconscious, but also the cultural one. Replacing a person’s monologue on the couch with ideology criticism or a piece of art, applied psychoanalysis allows us to analyse culture and the arts in a new way, uncovering the cultural unconscious.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-07-29
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350262287

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IntroductionPart I: Science and the Signifier I.1 “The Cunning of the Signifier”, Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University, Denmark)I.2 “The Echo of the Signifier in the Body: On Drives Today”, Juliet Flower MacCannell (University of California, USA)I.3 “Secret in the Body – the Fantasy Structure of Genes and Brains”, Renata Salecl (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Birkbeck College, UK)Part II: From Couch to Culture II.1 “Drives and Culture”, Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and European Graduate School, Switzerland)II.2 Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and the Four Discourses, Kirsten Hyldgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)II.3 “Courtly Capitalism”, Center for Wild AnalysisII.4 “Is there a Way out of the Capitalist Discourse?”, René Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)Part III: Application III.1 “Examples and Surplus-Meaning”, Brian Benjamin Hansen (VIA University College, Denmark)III.2 "Literature as Philosophy of the Real: Ethics and Sexual Difference in Coetzee’s Disgrace", Kari Jegerstedt (University of Bergen, Norway)III.3 “When I am Beside Myself”, Linus Nicolai Carlsen (University of Copenhagen)III.4 “Analysis Sounds Boring – Is there an Analytical Potential in Modern Electronic Music?”, Anders Ruby (Aarhus University, Denmark)Part IV: Materiality and the Signifier IV.1 “Lol V. Stein to the Letter”, Ida Nissen Bjerre (University of Copenhagen)IV.2 "Lacan and the Archeology of the Subject", Carin Franzén (Linköping University, Sweden)IV.3 “The Signifiers of Cherry Ripe – On the Trauma and Repetition of an Art-historical Motif”, Jakob Rosendal (The Women’s Museum, Denmark) (editor: Lilian Munk Rösing, University of Copenhagen)IV.4 “Colour of Flesh, Flesh of Colour”, Lilian Munk Rösing (University of Copenhagen)

The problem of applied psychoanalysis has historically been unsolvable. But now, the appearance of Analysing the Cultural Unconscious provides a whole new way of thinking about moving from a psychoanalysis focused on the individual to cultural psychoanalysis. Assembling a wide array of top psychoanalytic theorists, this collection opens up a previously unexplored path to thinking psychoanalytically about culture.