{"product_id":"amorous-acts-lacanian-ethics-in-modernism-film-and-queer-theory-9780804751827","title":"Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmorous Acts\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs psychoanalysis to show how queer theory is operating to effect a non-heterosexist social order. Although the Lacanian subject in Love can only experience his\/her self-shattering, Lacan's concept of Love is seen here as politically useful. This study breaks down Lacanian Love into three different forms and tries to unveil the danger, as well as especially the cultural potential, of the most intense of these variations. To arrive at this position, \u003ci\u003eAmorous Acts\u003c\/i\u003e first works out the meaning of Lacan's \"ethics of desire\" by analyzing several modern British novels (by E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Graham Greene), as well as some contemporary films (\u003ci\u003eBreaking the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeventh Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDamage\u003c\/i\u003e) and then by arguing with Zizek through a reading of Kieslowski's film \"White\". Finally, queer theory as it has been brought into being by Foucault, Halperin, Bersani, Butler, and Edelman is put into relation with Lacan's notion of the authentic act. Queer theory engages Lacan's conception of self-shattering Love to traverse the pernicious fundamental fantasy of heterosexist reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances L. Restuccia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.30w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804751827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances L. Restuccia is Professor of English at Boston College. She is author of \u003ci\u003eMelancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce and the Law of the Father\u003c\/i\u003e (1989). She is editor of the contemporary theory series at Other Press and co-chair of \"Psychoanalytic Practices\" at The Humanities Center at Harv\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45402507214963,"sku":"9780804751827","price":57.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_30f230f7-aa5b-493e-b4c8-9e8b5e8111bd.jpg?v=1787743975","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/amorous-acts-lacanian-ethics-in-modernism-film-and-queer-theory-9780804751827","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}