Lacan and the environment / Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury, editors.
Burnham, Clint, 1962- editor.; Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Thomas), editor.
2021
BF353.C55 L33 2021
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Title
Lacan and the environment / Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury, editors.
ISBN
9783030672058 (electronic bk.)
3030672050 (electronic bk.)
9783030672041
3030672042
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67205-8
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-67205-8 doi
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BF353.C55 L33 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.9
616.89/17
Summary
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. Clint Burnham is Chair of the Graduate Program and Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, and President of the Lacan Salon, Vancouver, Canada. Paul Kingsbury is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University, and Vice President of the Lacan Salon Vancouver, Canada.
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Burnham, Clint, 1962- editor.
Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Thomas), editor.
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Palgrave Lacan series.
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1. Introduction / Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury
Part I. Lacanian Theory. 2. Love Thy Enemy: Environment(al) Politics / Cindy Zeiher ; 3. "Staying with" the Anxiety: The Ecological Object a of Inuit Throat Singing / Alois Sieben ; 4. Confinement and Jouissance in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" / Alma Krilic ; 5. Lacans Trash Talk: Three Objects for the Internet / Clint Burnham
Part II. Our Knowledge on Climate Change. 6. The Psychotopology of Climate / Sasha J. Langford ; 7. In Defence of the Subject / Juan Luis de la Mora ; 8. Enjoying the Heat: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Doomsday Prepping / Calum Matheson
Part III. Lack of Knowledge. 9. Does the Animal Desire? / Alessandra Capperdoni ; 10. Aokigahara Forest: An Aesthetic Space of Residual Surplus / Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez ; 11. "Some people like" : Misapprehension and Effacement of Jouissance in Climate Hostile Advertising / Miguel Rivera
Part IV. End of the World. 12. Psychoanalysis at the End of the World / Nathan Gorelick ; 13. From the Sublime to the Hysterical Sublime: Reading the End of the World Against the Singularity / Matthew Flisfeder ; 14. From Capitalocene to Anthropocene: The Feminine Counter-Ecology of Snowpocalypse Films / Tamas Nagypal ; 15. Self-Destruction and the Natural World / Todd McGowan ; 16. Afterword / Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury.

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