Amorous acts; Lacanian ethics in modernism, film, and queer theory.080475182X Amorous am·o·rous adj. 1. Strongly attracted or disposed to love, especially sexual love. 2. Indicative of love or sexual desire: an amorous glance. 3. acts; Lacanian ethics in modernism, film, and queer theory Queer theory is a field of Gender Studies that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of gay/lesbian studies and feminist studies. Heavily influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and other deconstructionists, queer theory builds both upon the feminist . Restuccia, Frances L. Stanford U. Press 2006 175 pages $49.50 Hardcover BF175 Restuccia (English, Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing ) uses psychoanalytic concepts to suggest how queer theory is operating to put in place a non-heterosexist, radically desiring Symbolic. After working through the controversial and problematic relations among desire, Love, and ethics in Jacques Lacan Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃]) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. (1901-81), she ponders whether the sort of self-annihilation or Lacanian de-subjectivation that queer theorists now celebrate can serve as a way of transforming the current heterosexist social order. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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