Traversing the Fantasy
Critical Responses to Slavoj Zizek
Edited by
GEOFF BOUCHER
Deakin University
JASON GL YNOS
University of Essex
MATTHEW SHARPE
Deakin University
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Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos, Matthew Sharpe 2005
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Traversing the fantasy: critical responses to Slavoj Zizek
1. Zizek, Slavoj
I.Boucher, Geoff II.Glynos, Jason III.Sharpe, Matthew, 1975-
199.4'973
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boucher, Geoff.
Traversing the fantasy: critical responses to Slavoj Zizek I Geoff Boucher, Jason
Glynos, Matthew Sharpe.
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p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-5192-4 (alk. paper)
1. Zizek, Slavoj. I. Glynos, Jason. II. Sharpe, Matthew, 1975- III. Title.
B4870.z594B68 2005
199'.4973-dc22
2005014475
ISBN 0 7546 5192 4
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin. Cornwall
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Traversing the Fantasy
Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe
PART 1: PSYCHOANALYSIS
The Politics of Style in the Works of Slavoj Zizek
Justin Clemens
2
The Law as a Thing: Zizek and the Graph of Desire
Geoff Boucher
PART 2: CULTURE
3
Flesh for Fantasy: Aesthetics, the Fantasmatic, and Film Noir
Robert Miklitsch
4 Zirek and Deleuze
Ian Buchanan
PART 3: IDEOLOGY
5 What !fOod Was One ofUs-Zizek's Ontology
Robert Paul Resch
6 Where i