Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780415792233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 167 str.

Daniel Hourigan

Opis

This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, this book addresses issues such as the forced choice to enjoy the law, the biopolitics of tyranny, the enjoyment of law’s contingency, the trauma of the law’s symbolic codification of pleasure, and the futuristic vision of law’s transgression. In so doing, it forges an important case for acknowledging and analyzing the complex relationship between power and pleasure in law – one that will be of considerable interest to legal theorists, as well as those with interests in the intersection of psychoanalytic and cultural theory.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Reading the Law with Lacan  2. Law’s Forced Choice (to Enjoy)  3. Law and Contingency  4. Capitalist Subjectivity and the Wissenschaft of Jurisprudence  5. The Master and Knowledge after Nihilism  6. Enjoyment and Restorative Justice  7. Law, Transgression, and The Cares of a Family Man  8. Coraline, or, l’envers de la loi  9. Psyche and Authority  10. The Legal and Erotic in True Blood  11. Power and Jouissance in The City & The City  12. Contract and Conflict in Eve Online  Conclusion

O autorze

Daniel Hourigan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.