The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

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Adorno, Theodor, 83–84 AIDS crisis, 87–89 American Buffalo. See Mamet, David American Psycho. See Harron, Mary Americana. See DeLillo, Don Anal father, 46–57, 169, 207n See also Z+iz=ek, Slavoj André, Serge, 14 Angels in America. See Kushner, Tony Armageddon, 108 As I Lay Dying. See Faulkner, William Aumont, Jacques, 202n Ayer, A. J., 83, 212n Badiou, Alain, 104 Balsamo, Anne, 212n Baran, Paul, 31 Barthes, Roland, 59 Baudrillard, Jean, 62, 65, 68–69, 75–77, 85, 101, 103, 210n Beatty, Warren Bulworth, 151–152 Benjamin, Walter, 29 Beloved. See Morrison, Toni Bennett, William, 43 Bergala, Alain, 202n Bergman, Ingmar Persona, 54 Big Other, 157, 161 and alienation, 62 and desire, 17, 21, 66–69, 123 and enjoyment, 14, 121, 139 investment in, 127, 129, 131, 151–152, 200n, 221n, 231n See also Lacan, Jacques Blankenhorn, David, 43–44, 56, 206n Bloom, Allan, 37, 39 Blue Velvet. See Lynch, David Bluest Eye, The. See Morrison, Toni Book of Daniel, The. See Doctorow, E. L. Boothby, Richard, 20, 79 Bouson, J. Brooks, 106 Brecht, Bertolt, 54 Brennan, Teresa, 173, 228n Bukharin, Nicolai, 31 Bulworth. See Beatty, Warren Bush, George H. W., 36 Bush, George W., 36, 149, 181, 230n, 231n Byrd, James, 216n California Proposition 187, 230n California Proposition 209, 230n Capitalism, 1–5, 30–34, 140, 142, 158, 197n Carter, Stephen, 178–181, 229n, 230n Claridge, Henry, 223n Clinton, Bill, 27, 148–149, 203n, 204n, 231n 233 Index Columbine High School shooting, 187–189, 218n, 231n Competitive capitalism. See Liberal capitalism Copjec, Joan, 5, 45–46, 82, 160–161 Cross, Gary, 178, 204n Cultural Studies, 82–83 Cyberspace, 70, 78, 156–157, 210n, 211n Davis, Walter, 72, 218n Dead Poets Society. See Weir, Peter Deep Impact, 108 Deleuze, Gilles, 80, 197n DeLillo, Don Americana, 8, 60–63, 208n End Zone, 208–209n The Names, 60 Underworld, 60, 208n Demme, Jonathan Silence of the Lambs, 14, 200n, 201n Derrida, Jacques, 80–81, 103, 203n, 213n Diogenes, 124–125, 221n Dixon, Graham, 214n Do the Right Thing. See Lee, Spike Doctorow, E. L. Book of Daniel, The, 140–142 Loon Lake, 25, 142 Ragtime, 140–143 World’s Fair, 8–9, 141–148, 223–224n Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 16 Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie, 31–33 Dune. See Lynch, David Earthquake. See Robson, Mark Easterbrook, Gregg, 86 Ego, 19, 28, 66–69, 72, 157, 173, 175, 228n, 229n Ego ideal, 26, 34, 46, 108, 112 8 1/2. See Fellini, Federico End of Violence. See Wenders, Wim End Zone. See DeLillo, Don Engels, Frederick, 192 ER, 78 Evans, Tony, 45 Evolutionary Psychology, 200n Fascism, 6, 30, 65 Faludi, Susan, 43–44, 56 Family values, 5–6 Fanon, Frantz, 231n Farrell, John, 4 Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying, 105–106 Fellini, Federico 8 1/2, 69–70 Femme fatale, 116–117 Fincher, David Game, The, 67–68, 209n Foucault, Michel, 40, 80–82, 103, 128, 197n, 212n, 222n Fowler, Douglas, 223n FOX News, 39 Franco, Paul, 198n Fraser, Nancy, 159, 226n Freud, Sigmund, 35, 222n on aggressiveness, 191 on class difference, 27–28 on the death drive, 4–5 on enjoyment, 13, 117, 198n, 199n on the primal horde, 11, 14–15 on the superego, 28–29 Fromm, Erich, 203n Fundamentalism, 90–92, 99–100 Game, The. See Fincher, David Garbus, Lisa, 104 Gemünden, Gerd, 63 Gilroy, Paul, 6, 65 Glazer, Jonathan Sexy Beast, 55 Global capitalism, 34, 50, 53–54, 96, 99, 109, 126, 159, 192–193 Guattari, Félix, 197n Habermas, Jürgen, 158–159 Hamlet. See Shakespeare, William Hannibal. See Scott, Ridley Harari, Robert, 230–231n Harding, Wendy, 217n 234 Index Harris, Eric, 187, 231n Harron, Mary American Psycho, 208n Harter, Carol, 142, 223n Hegel, G. W. F., 7, 194, 198n and the critique of Kant, 122 on the master/slave dialectic, 26, 203n on the state, 180–181, 230n on universality, 100 Heidegger, Martin, 83–86, 102–104, 211n, 213n, 216n Heinze, Denise, 104 Hilfer, Anthony C., 217n Historicism, 82–83, 97 Hobbes, Thomas, 166–167 hooks, bell, 215n Husserl Edmund, 101, 216n Iannone, Carol, 142 Id, 28–29 Ideal ego, 46, 61, 70, 112, 132, 220n Imaginary 57, 123, 210n, 224n and enjoyment, 69–73, 138–141, 146–153, 175, 192–193, 223n, 229n and neurosis, 201n in relation to the Real, 77, 81, 92–93 in relation to the symbolic order, 59–64, 202n, 208n See also Lacan, Jacques Immanence, 80...