Lacan and the environment
by Burnham, Clint Kingsbury, Paul, (Paul Thomas)
In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They argue that we cannot understand climate change and all of its multifarious ramifications without first understanding how our terrifying proximity to the real undergirds our relation to the environment, how we mistake lack for loss and mourning for melancholy, and how we seek to destroy the same world we seek to protec…
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- Full title :Lacan and the environment / Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury, editors.
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In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They argue that we cannot understand climate change and all of its multifarious ramifications without first understanding how our terrifying proximity to the real undergirds our relation to the environment, how we mistake lack for loss and mourning for melancholy, and how we seek to destroy the same world we seek to protect. The book traces Lacans contribution through a consideration of topics including doomsday preppers, forest suicides, Indigenous resistance, post-apocalyptic films, the mathematics of climate science, and the relevance of Kant. They ask: What can you do if your neighbour is a climate change denier? What would Bartleby do? Does the animal desire? Who is cleaning up all the garbage on the internet? Why is the sudden greening of the planet under COVID-19 no help whatsoever? It offers a timely intervention into Lacanian theory, environmental studies, geography, philosophy, and literary studies that illustrates the relevance of psychoanalysis to current social and environmental concerns.
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- Publication Date:2021
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- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 315 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030672041, 3030672042
- oclc:on1242744054
- LC Classification:BF353.C55
- Dewey Decimal:155.9
Table of Contents
Introduction / Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury -- Lacanian theory. Love thy enemy : environment(al) politics / Cindy Zeither -- "Staying with" the anxiety : the ecological objet petit a of Inuit throat singing / Alois Sieben -- Confinement and jouissance in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener : A Story of Wall Street" / Alma Krilic -- Lacan's trash talk : three objects for the Internet / Clint Burnham -- Our knowledge on climate change. The psychotopology of climate / Sasha J. Langford -- In defence of the subject / Juan Luis de la Mora -- Enjoying the heat : anxiety, fantasy, and doomsday / Calum Matheson -- Lack of knowledge . Does the animal desire? / Alessandra Capperdoni -- Aokigahara forest : an aesthetic space of residual surplus / Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez -- "Some people like..." : misapprehension and effacement of jouissance in climate hostile advertising / Miguel Rivera -- End of the world. Psychoanalysis at the end of the world / Nathan Gorelick -- From the sublime to the hysterical sublime : reading the end of the world against the singularity / Matthew Flisfeder -- From capitalocene to anthropocene : the feminine counter-ecology of snowpocalypse films / Tamás …
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