Word: lacan
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Walker, in the tradition of writer and political theorist Franz Fanon, builds upon Freudian psychoanalysis and Lacan's theory of dialectical identity to expose the underpinning mechanisms of racism in contemporary American society. Walker's catalogue book, riddled with references to the "Other," the "gaze" and "perversion," tackles the psychological foundations of racism in the context of a history of slavery. She successfully uses theories that have been applied to a colonial history to create a conceptual framework that addresses the unique perversities of a racism grounded in slavery. This is no small feat...
...last several years." I lecture Anderson, perhaps overdoing The Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release of a collection of 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' episodes on videotape...
...apologize for my absense last week, but I had to attend the Lacan convention to expand my knowledge of psychoanalysis and serve you better. While my absense was regrettable, I must say that visiting Paris was not. Oh, the sights and sounds of Gay Paris...! It was positively dreamy. I dined at the most delicious restaurants, attended the most fabulous theater, schmoozed with the most marvelous people and emptied the yearbook's expense account on the Champs Elysie. However, of everything I did in Paris, I will never forget Jacques. He really knew his way around the Eifel Tower...
...genuflect before the gods of post modernism--Bakhtin, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan--or if you've been accompanying Umberto Eco during his walks in the fictional woods, you may want to take a look at this novel for its oppositional stance. Otherwise, you would be well advised to stay clear...
...need to liberate the young from Foucault,[Jacques] Derrida and [Jacques] Lacan--from thisFrench theory crap," she said...