Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Subject "Libido"

Browsing Research Articles (Psychology) by Subject "Libido"

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  • 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 ...