Product Description: Umbr(a) was one of the most important US theory journals of the 1990s and early 2000s, publishing work by some of the greatest philosophers, psychoanalysts and theorists of our era. In every regard, it was ahead of the curve - in content, design, and style - often introducing thinkers who have subsequently become globally influential...read more

Product Description: Retomando la impactante afirmación de Jacques Lacan "la mujer no existe", la autora imagina las consecuencias éticas de la idea de ser que esta frase implica. El libro ofrece un análisis teórico minucioso y riguroso en dos partes bien delimitadas: en la primera se aborda la relación entre feminidad y ética; en la segunda se relacionan los argumentos con obras artísticas y se analiza el costado oculto superyoico de la ética: el concepto kantiano de mal radical y la distinción entre sublimación y perversión...read more

Product Description: Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics...read more

Product Description: A psychoanalytic journal dedicated to the question of the law. Published by SUNY/Buffalo's Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.

Product Description: An issue of the annual journal Umbr(a) dedicated to aesthetics as addressed in psychoananalysis by way of sublimation.

Product Description: Giving Ground is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and ignites violent persecutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Radical Evil, the second volume in the S series, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Kant’s Religion without the Limits of Reason Alone, where Kant first proposed, and quickly withdrew in horror, the concept of radical evil—an evil at the very heart of the ethical problematic...read more

Product Description: Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and consider contemporary ideas that revive the subject, including queer theory and national identity. Contributors include Parveen Adams, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Charles Shepardson, Mikkei Borch-Jacobsen, Elizabeth Grosz and Miaden Dolar...read more

Product Description: For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The Woman in the Window, prompted the naming and theorization of a new phenomenon: film noir...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses essays and an interview to document the theories of Lacan that resulted in his expulsion from the International Psychoanalytic Association