1st Edition
The Surface Effect The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis
By André Nusselder
Copyright 2013
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the ‘mother of all media’? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real?
In The Surface Effect André Nusselder examines the space of fantasy between individual ‘inner life’ and social ‘outer life’. Where we assume that fantasy only operates where we float off in imaginary realms, this book shows that we are in it from... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; PART I The Philosophical Context; Chapter 2 Love and Language; Chapter 3 ‘Imagination’ As Medium; PART II Lacan’s Theory of Fantasy; Chapter 4 Frameworks for Desire; Chapter 5 Defence; Chapter 6 Mediation; Chapter 7 Real Fiction; PART III Lacan and Philosophy; Chapter 8 Assuming Your Desire;
Biography
André Nusselder
