The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JACExploring the...
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Author: Todd McGowan
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The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment by McGowan, Todd

The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

$108.29

The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

$108.29
Author: Todd McGowan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC

Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zðizûek, Joan Copjec, and Theresa Brennan to argue that we are in the midst of a large-scale transformation--a shift from a society oriented around prohibition (i.e., the notion that one cannot just do as one pleases) to one oriented around enjoyment. McGowan identifies many of the social ills of American culture today as symptoms of this transformation: the sense of disconnection, the increase in aggression and violence, widespread cynicism, political apathy, incivility, and loss of meaning. Discussing these various symptoms, he examines various texts from film, literature, popular culture, and everyday life, including Toni Morrison's Paradise, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and such films as Dead Poets Society and Trigger Effect. Paradoxically, The End of Dissatisfaction? shows how the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 11/20/2003
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.98w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780791459683


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1964

About the Author
Todd McGowan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The Feminine No!: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, also published by SUNY Press.


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