2001 A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory [Hardcover]

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did. He extends Lacans late topological insights, delves into conceptualisations of desire, in G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Koj?ve, and Lacan himself, and deals with the major themes of cuts (filmic and psychoanalytic); space; silence; surreality; and das Ding, in relation to the movies enigmatic monolith. This book is a tour de force of psychoanalytic theory and space odyssey that will appeal to academics and practitioners of psychoanalysis and film studies, as well as to any fan of Kubricks work.

1. Overture.- 2. Monolith.- 3. Cut.- 4. Space.- 5. Silence.- 6. Surreality.

Daniel Bristow is author of Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing, and Psychoanalysis, and contributing editor and co-creator of the Everyday Analysis Collective.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did. He extends Lacans late topological insights, delves into conceptualisations of desire, in G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Koj?ve, and Lacan himself, and deals with the major themes of cuts (filmic and psychoanalytic); space; silence; surreality; and das Ding, in relation to the movies enigmatic monolith. This book is a tour de force of psychoanalytic theory and space odyssey thatl#X