Slavoj Žižek

When those words are being written down, a huge protest named “Occupy Central” is taking place in Hong Kong. At this critical moment of history, what impresses us first from the name of this protest is a power of space: Hong Kong people, who is regarded as the peripheral of China, by occupying the Central (a sub-center), strive for becoming visible and hearable to the center (Beijing) to resist their doomed future: an ostensible “direct election” in 2017, or even worse political sufferings that people

Simulation Proliferation and the City Mr. Hand wears all black, is tall, thin, and pale. He floats around a dark city and ends far too many lines with a creepy self-affirming “yesss.” In Dark City (Alex Proyas 1998) we see over and over again indications of the tropes and repetitions that make up the urban/filmic imagination. Not quite vampires, not quite grey aliens, not quite business men, not quite religious, not quite serial murderers, Mr. Hand and the other Strangers seem to be archetypal

The Consequences of De-Politicization The anticipated and unanticipated consequences of a de-politicized society Generation Y, or the so-called Lost Generation, is often accused of being apathetic of its circumstances; the engineer of its own decline by act of indifference. Critics opine that “kids today” are uninterested in the future of political discourse and the importance it plays in the advancement of society and culture. One writer, as far back in the past as 1959, accused the youth of having

Women and femininity in psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan Yasaman Rafiei Prof: Nancy Frelick Span 501B Introduction One of the unclear and questionable subjects in psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, is the psychology of women and femininity. Male-centered psychoanalysis, which with no doubt is a reflection of tradition, patriarchy, misogyny and women discrimination as a second gender,; is the most important factor that this theory is static and conservative despite some valuable revelation.

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Fragmented selves: A Lacanian Reading of Auster’s The New York Trilogy Abstract: The concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche, namely ego, id and super-ego, and later modified by Jacque Lacan, the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts in the postmodern literature. By assimilating the structure of unconscious to that of language, Lacan bridges between psychoanalysis and linguistics

Fragmented selves: A Lacanian Reading of Auster’s The New York Trilogy Abstract: The concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche, namely ego, id and super-ego, and later modified by Jacque Lacan, the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts in the postmodern literature. By assimilating the structure of unconscious to that of language, Lacan bridges between psychoanalysis and linguistics

Chapter- One Theorising Identity and The Search for The Self among the sub-continental Diaspora in Britain Identity has always been a problematic area of interrogation epistemologically, existentially and politically and it continues to propel our thought. Etymologically, the term is derived from Latin word ‘Idem’ meaning ‘same’ (Oxford Online Dictionary) which means ‘specific quality or condition of being a specific person or an object”. A person’s identity is determined in terms of his/her