2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

by Daniel Bristow

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did. He extends Lacan's late topological insights, delves into conceptualisations of desire, in G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Koj?ve, and Lacan himself,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331969443X
• ISBN13: 9783319694436
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"