Art as Symptom: Žižek and the Ethics of Psychoanalytic Criticism
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in diacritics
- Vol. 32 (2), 21-41
- https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2004.0020
Abstract
The notion of the symptom is central to Žižek's thinking about politics and culture. Although in his work and in psychoanalytic theory more generally the term symptom carries a range of conceptual meanings, symptomatology remains the governing trope of Žižek's oeuvre. Following Lacan, who continued to modify the concept of the symptom throughout his career, Žižek argues that just about anything can be understood as symptomatic:Keywords
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