A Voice and Nothing More

by Mladen Dolar

A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice--the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541874
• ISBN13: 9780262541879
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher