The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lac...

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central r...

In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in...

This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian Sch...

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more diffi...

This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian Sch...

While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gr...

In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an intr...

Why is capitalism so resilient? Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary wo...

Todd McGowan is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and author of Out of ...

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and a...

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world offilm theory. By marrying th...

Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the w...

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it...

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psyc...

This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanaly...

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought,...

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psyc...

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory

In a radical reconsideration of political theory and politics, Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan e...

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying t...

'The Racist Fantasy lays out the fundamental fantasy structure that underlies a racist psyche as ...

The Racist Fantasy explores the psychic basis for the racism that appears so conspicuously throug...

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek have been, like Zizek himself, extreme. Criti...

'In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming...

Kapitalizmin Ruhsal Bedeli Nedir

Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the ...

Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the ...

Evrensellik ve Kimlik Siyaseti

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than w...