Zizek and the Rhetorical Unconscious

Robert Samuels has doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He teaches advanced writing and rhetoric at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of fifteen books, including Freud for the Twenty-First Century.

• 1.Introduction.- 2.Catharsis: The Politics of Enjoyment.- 3.Pathos, Hysteria, and the Left.- 4.Ethos, Transference, and Liberal Cynicism.- 5.Logos, Global Justice, and the Reality Principle.- 6.Conclusion: Communism or Commonism.