Pixar with Lacan
The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
Pixar with Lacan
The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
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The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications?
Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.
Table of Contents
2. Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story 1
3. Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 2
4. Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 3
5. Entertainment as Warfare: A Bug's Life
6. There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc.
7. Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo
8. More than Super: The Incredibles
9. The Mother Road: Cars
10. Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille
11. Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell: Wall-E
12. His Master's Voice: Up
13. Conclusion
Epilogue: Animation and Capitalism
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | 17 Dec 2015 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9781628920598 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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