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Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
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Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
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Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
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The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From
Monsters Inc
to
Toy Story
and
Wall-E,
the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications?
Pixar with Lacan
has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object
a
, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.
Monsters Inc
to
Toy Story
and
Wall-E,
the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications?
Pixar with Lacan
has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object
a
, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.