Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture

A Lacanian Approach to Gaze, Sex, Race, and Social Change

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Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture

A Lacanian Approach to Gaze, Sex, Race, and Social Change

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Anxiety as not only a feeling of dread, but a feeling that we dread is widely considered by both philosophical and psychoanalytic thinkers as an important signal related to our experience of the cultural and intersubjective world. Stephen Felder explores the experience of anxiety through the writings of the existentialist, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic traditions, especially Jacques Lacan, to make sense out of this dreadful experience. Working from Lacan's claim that the structure of anxiety and fantasy are the same, Felder shows that anxiety is a signal of the Lacanian Real and thus provides us with a point of view from which to critique the cultural world by clarifying how we experience ourselves and others. The chapters examine the implications of this insight for how we think about the visual field, sex, race, consumerism, and what Stuart Hall called the “contradictions of culture” in our attempts to live more vibrant lives and create more emancipatory practices in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Feeling Anxiety

Chapter 1: Theorizing the Subject of Anxiety

Chapter 2: Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture

Chapter 3: Anxiety in the Field of Vision

Chapter 4: Anxiety as the Truth of Sexuality

Chapter 5: Anxiety and the Fantasy of Race

Conclusion: In Defense of Anxiety, Or, How to Get Cancer without Becoming Wise

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Published Sep 20 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 216
ISBN 9781666947212
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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