Pixar with Lacan The Hysteric's Guide to Animation [Hardcover]

The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. FromMonsters InctoToy StoryandWall-E,the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications?

Pixar with Lacanhas the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the objecta, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.

Everyone has always felt that Pixar films revolutionized animation, and this revolution seemed due simply to technological and narrative inventiveness. With the appearance of Lilian Monk R?sing'sPixar with Lacan, we now know the true reason for the Pixar revolution. The greatness of Pixar films stems directly from their profound engagement with Lacanian theory. The animation that Pixar creates is, as R?sing shows, the animation of the subject itself. Through a series of groundbreaking readings of all the major Pixar films, R?sing provides us with the definitive account of the reason for the Pixar revolution. If we watch Pixar films closely enough, we will have in ready to hand all the central concepts of Lacan theory, and R?sing shows us this is a breathtaking fashion. Todd McGowan, Associate Professor of Film and Televislý