Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Subject "Lacan"

Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Subject "Lacan"

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  • Death-bound subjectivity : Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and the Lacanian death drive 
    Hook, Derek (Springer, 2020-12)
    Is there a distinctive form of political agency that emerges from the conditions of ‘death-bound subjectivity’? Fanon’s idea of the zone of nonbeing suggests that this is indeed the case. Yet there is an omission in the ...
  • Fanon via Lacan, or: decolonization by psychoanalytic means … ? 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2020)
    Lacanian psychoanalysis is often considered antithetical to Frantz Fanon's decolonizing political project. This paper argues, by contrast, that by exploring hitherto under-explored aspects of the Fanon-Lacan relation we ...
  • Of symbolic mortification and undead life : Slavoj Žižek on the death drive 
    Hook, Derek (Edinburgh University Press, 2016-07)
    The work of Slavoj Žižek contains arguably the most conceptually ambitious re-articulation of the Lacanian notion of the death drive. This paper offers an expository thread joining many of the fragmentary depictions of the ...
  • What is "enjoyment as a political factor"? 
    Hook, Derek (Wiley, 2017-08)
    The notion of “enjoyment as a political factor” is a key motif in Lacanian psychoanalytic social theory. This article explores the notion of enjoyment/jouissance—a type of “negative pleasure” or intense libidinal arousal—as ...