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Masks and Truth: Lacan's Seven Lessons Author: Slavoj Zizek Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Masks and Truth: Lacan's Seven Lessons Author: Slavoj Zizek Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Masks and Truths: Lacan's Seven Lessons" is a monograph on Lacan by Slovenian writer and philosopher Žižek, a favorite student of French writer and philosopher Lacan. It is divided into eight parts, including an introduction and seven chapters, mainly including "Empty Gestures and Performances: Lacan Meets CIA Conspiracy", "The Trouble with the Real: Lacan as the Audience of Alien", "Ego Ideal and Superego: Lacan as the Audience of Casablanca" and other articles. The author takes "small opposition" and the theory of reality as the axis of the book, and uses movies, stories or political events as cases to systematically show readers the basic composition of Lacan's theory. "Masks and Truths: Lacan's Seven Lessons" is a "textbook" that is both interesting and informative, and can deeply penetrate popular culture to introduce Lacan's theory.
In the UK, philosophers are roughly divided into two categories: scholars who write for their peers and "merchants of the meaning of life" who project their reflections to the public. The secret of Zizek's success lies in his combination of the best of both worlds: he is a polymath who is proficient in applying the theories of Kant and Heidegger, but also has a philosophical passion for the daily lives of ordinary people.
——[British] Terry Eagleton
As an introductory book on Lacan's thoughts, the successor of Lacan's psychoanalysis, the famous philosopher Slavoj Zizek shows us how "philosophy traversed by psychoanalysis" can provide new inspiration for our daily lives and help readers understand Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and thoughts. It is an easy-to-understand Lacan "textbook". Due to his unique academic thoughts and political stance, Zizek is also known as "the most dangerous philosopher in the West."
About the Author · · · · · ·
Slavoj Žižek, born in 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, a successor of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana. Since the 1990s, Žižek has swept the Western academic world with his reinterpretations of Lacan and Hegel, and single-handedly challenged postmodernism represented by Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and others. There are nearly 30 translated works of his published in China, including Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost and A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions.
Translator:
Tang Jian, a master of humanities from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is a researcher on Lacan and Zizek's thought. In 2010, he founded the Hong Kong Zizek Society to promote Lacan's psychoanalysis and Hegel-Marxist thought represented by scholars such as Zizek and Badiou. He has translated works such as "Violence: Reflections on Six Aspects" and "Death is the Purpose of Life: An Introduction to Freud".
