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    Lacan and the Environment by Burnham, Clint; Kingsbury, Paul;

    Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2021
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 16 July 2021
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783030672041
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages315 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 565 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVII, 315 p. 23 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They argue that we cannot understand climate change and all of its multifarious ramifications without first understanding how our terrifying proximity to the real undergirds our relation to the environment, how we mistake lack for loss and mourning for melancholy, and how we seek to destroy the same world we seek to protect. The book traces Lacan’s contribution through a consideration of topics including doomsday preppers, forest suicides, Indigenous resistance, post-apocalyptic films, the mathematics of climate science, and the relevance of Kant. They ask: What can you do if your neighbour is a climate change denier? What would Bartleby do? Does the animal desire? Who is cleaning up all the garbage on the internet? Why is the sudden greening of the planet under COVID-19 no help whatsoever?

    It offers a timely intervention into Lacanian theory, environmental studies, geography, philosophy, and literary studies that illustrates the relevance of psychoanalysis to current social and environmental concerns.


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    Table of Contents:

    1 Introduction; Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury.- Part I Lacanian Theory.- 2 Love Thy Enemy: Environment(al) Politics; Cindy Zeiher.- 3 “Staying with” the Anxiety: The Ecological Object a of Inuit Throat Singing; Alois Sieben.- 4 Confinement and Jouissance in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”; Alma Krilic.- 5 Lacan’s Trash Talk: Three Objects for the Internet; Clint Burnham.- Part II Our Knowledge on Climate Change.- 6 The Psychotopology of Climate.- Sasha J. Langford.- 7 In Defence of the Subject; Juan Luis de la Mora.- 8 Enjoying the Heat: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Doomsday Prepping; Calum Matheson.- Part III Lack of Knowledge.- 9 Does the Animal Desire?; Alessandra Capperdoni.- 10 Aokigahara Forest: An Aesthetic Space of Residual Surplus; Hilda Fernández-Alvarez.- 11 “Some people like...”: Misapprehension and Effacement of Jouissance in Climate Hostile Advertising; Miguel Rivera.- Part IV End of the World.- 12 Psychoanalysis at the End of the World; NathanGorelick.- 13 From the Sublime to the Hysterical Sublime: Reading the End of the World Against the Singularity; Matthew Flisfeder.- 14 From Capitalocene to Anthropocene: The Feminine Counter-Ecology of Snowpocalypse Films; Tamas Nagypal.- 15 Self-Destruction and the Natural World; Todd McGowan.- 16 Afterword; Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury.

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