Jacques Lacan

I am greatly interested in researching the libidinal economy through the lens of critical Indigenous theory. Afropessimist scholar Jared Sexton defines the libidinal economy as “the economy, or distribution and arrangement, of desire and identification (their condensation and displacement), and the complex relationship between sexuality and the unconscious” which includes the “dispensation of energies, concerns, points of attention, anxieties, pleasures, appetites, revulsions, and phobias capable

to the fact that patriarchy power to control cinematic pleasure has revealed. Many critics have noticed that Mulvey’s application of psychoanalysis and filmmaking appears in an ironic return to Freud and Jacques Lacan. Mulvey uses the gaze to examine male pleasure in narrative cinema, but Lacan

Carter Castrates Freud: Criticism in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ of Psychoanalytic Theory While Psychoanalysis has provided many psychological breakthroughs in the field of mental health, it has also created great issue in relation to gender equality. Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory has contributed to the solidification of female oppression, and to the inferior status of women in the twentieth century. Psychoanalysis had become so intwined into the constructs of a male dominated society that it creates

Feminism has a long political history developing from women’s movements that sought to shake the certainties of a complacent patriarchal society through the call for social, economic and political reform, into a philosophical theory. An insight into the key moments of the history of French feminism through the identification of its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings may offer a comprehensive understanding of the French feminist thought that started as a “leaderless and structurless… collection

Blinded by Greed: An Exegesis of “The Necklace” (“La Parure”, 1884) In today’s world, there is always going to be some new product or service that will replace outdated ones, or someone who is always going to want to live above their means. Because of the way that society has put an impression on consumers, they are always persuaded to purchase the “next big thing”. Or the way that society put actors, actresses, or well-known rich people on a pedestal, an average class person would probably aspire

Britney Spears’ Promotes Potentially Abusive Relationships in Her Song, Baby, One More Time In her Top 10 hit ". . . Baby, One More Time," Britney Spears posits the song’s persona as a passive naïf. Continual references to blindness and hitting metamorphose the song from a teen-targeted summer pop tune into ideology enslaving young women into dangerous, constrictive views of relationships--and themselves. Using feminist and Lacanian theory allows us to see the speaker’s entrance into the Symbolic

------------------------------------------------- Abject Design ------------------------------------------------- A psychoanalytic/structuralist analysis of Julia Kristeva’s “The Old Man and the Wolves” Julia Kristeva’s The Old Man and the Wolves details the gradual degeneration of the fundamentally corruptible community of Santa Varvara. As described by the novel’s namesake, the Old Man Septicious Clarus, in terms of singularity, morality and—both metaphorically and palpably—humanity, each

opportunity to sculpt characters that differentiate themselves from one another. Psychoanalytical Criticism is the application of psychological studies incorporated into the findings of contemporary literature, principles founded by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan are most commonly referred to in these texts. Hamlet is an identity that was shaped by Shakespeare himself in order to cope with the mental pain of losing his son, rather the play shows an opposing view and instead illustrates a son mourning over

world within between the public and private realm, as if it were an almost delusional relationship between the monster and Victor. A Lacanian approach, the study and development of the ideas and theories of the dissenting French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, becomes useful in interpreting the text with a psychoanalysis tool of literature. This approach provides the reader with insight on two different types of orders: symbolic and imaginary. Alphonse Frankenstein on one hand, is a duteous father and

Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism, Elaine Showalter goes through countless interpretations of Ophelia’s character. One interpretation of Ophelia concerns her being an insignificant, minor role. Jacques Lacan believes that Ophelia is just part of Hamlet’s exterior; she is simply just one of Hamlet’s accessories. She is weak and mad, but interesting in what she tells us about Hamlet. Usually, critics barely even touch on Ophelia’s role. Her character