Hannibal Lecter, the anti-heroic cannibal and sophisticated psychiatrist from Thomas Harris's novels and the corresponding Hollywood movies, has been a type of 'recurring reflector'. He has come and gone, tantalising subjects with the secrets of themselves. Again and again this has happened, until at last the subject cannot resist the urge to ejaculate his/her fantasies out into the external world. This study is intended for students and enthusiasts of film, literature and low culture who wish to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between the individual Subject and the Big Other...

A kingpin. A doctor. A castaway. A miser. A spot-fixer. A thief. A gourmand. A scribe. A captain. All lost. All adrift. All Um Louts. The ex-players of The Um Louts, the finest five-a-side football team ever to grace the sandy Elms pitches in East London, have been flung to the four corners of the Earth. They each seek satisfaction in other walks of life away from the football field, but all they find is frustration and rage. But one by one they receive a calling that resounds deeply in their hearts and forces them to reassess the stagnation in their lives. What great force could it be that...