Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment

Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment

A Psychoanalytic Critique of Ideology

by Han-yu Huang

187 pages· 2007· ISBN 9783039112456
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This book argues for the significance of ideology critique and moral judgment in the fields of literary, cultural, political and philosophical studies. By drawing on Slavoj Zižek's theory of ideology the author examines postmodern horror films like Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs," multiculturalism, post-September 11 political discourses and the society of enjoyment in terms of paranoia and perversion and reveals patterns of enjoyment structured through ideological fantasy. The Lacanian/Zižekian theory of ideological fantasy and ethics of psychoanalysis is then applied to broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts.

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