An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.Is pleasure a …
Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology.Consider sublimation-conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual …
Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw.Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the …
The "formidably brilliant" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting …
Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.A specter is haunting philosophy-the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? …
A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later psychoanalytic theory.In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in …
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context-examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka …
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work-and the dismissal …
