Demonstrates how psychoanalysis extends the claims of Saussurean linguistics for a science of signs, and takes the reader with great clarity and precision through a number of the most puzzling thickets of Freudian and Lacanian thought.

The Subject of Semiotics

Literature & Fiction

SILVERMAN, Kaja

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.

SUBJECT SEMIOTICS P

"... a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential." ―Stephen Heath
"An original work likely to have significant impact on all those with an interest in the vibrant intersection of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis... " ―Naomi Schor
"... powerfully argued study... impressive... " ―Choice
"... important because of its innovative work on Hollywood’s ideologically-charged construction of subjectivity.... what is exciting about The Acoustic Mirror is that it inspires one to reevaluate a number of now classical theoretical texts, and to see films with an eye to how authorship is constructed and subjectivity is generated." ―Literature and Psychology
"As evocative as it is shrewdly systematic, the pioneering theory of female subjectivity formulated in the final three chapters will have wide impact as a major contribution to feminist theory." ―SubStance
The Acoustic Mirror attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory of the past decade has done for the image-track―to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference. The specific focus is the female voice understood not merely as spoken dialogue, narration, and commentary, but as a fantasmatic projection, and as a metaphor for authorship.

The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Indiana University Press

"... a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential." ?Stephen Heath"An original work likely to have significant impact on all those with an interest in the vibrant intersection of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis... " ?Naomi Schor"... powerfully argued study... impressive... " ?Choice"... important because of its innovative work on Hollywood's ideologically-charged construction of subjectivity.... what is exciting about The Acoustic Mirror is that it inspires one to reevaluate a number of now classical theoretical texts, and to see films with an eye to how authorship is constructed and subjectivity is generated." ?Literature and Psychology"As evocative as it is shrewdly systematic, the pioneering theory of female subjectivity formulated in the final three chapters will have wide impact as a major contribution to feminist theory." ?SubStanceThe Acoustic Mirror attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory of the past decade has done for the image-track?to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference. The specific focus is the female voice understood not merely as spoken dialogue, narration, and commentary, but as a fantasmatic projection, and as a metaphor for authorship.

Indiana Univ. Pr

Male Subjectivity at the Margins

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Routledge

In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.

The Threshold of the Visible World

Arts & Photography

In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.

How Soon Is Now features the work of leading contemporary photographers: Anne Collier, Liz Deschenes, Trisha Donnelly, Shannon Ebner, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fishli & Weiss, Annette Kelm, Darius Khondji, Elad Lassry, Leigh Ledare, Marlo Pascual, Gilad Ratman, Solmaz Shahbazi, Kazuo Shinohara and Taryn Simon. The photographers were selected by five of the world’s leading artists and curators: Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Beatrix Ruf. Some of the works included explore personal and intimate investigations by the artists, some filter and document everyday experiences or words, and some endow photographs with material presence as physical objects. A common element is the use of collage, video, film, installation or sculpture. Essays by Alex Klein, André Rottmann and Kaja Silverman consider the shifting role of the photographic medium.

How Soon Is Now?

Klein, Alex

Rottmann, André

Photography & Video

Luma Foundation

World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato’s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called “world love,” the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freud’s assertion that the “loss of reality” associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself. In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the world―that the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned to what she terms world spectatorship. Drawing on Heidegger’s phenomenological elaboration of care as the being distinctive of human being and the primarily Lacanian conceptualization of the language of desire specific to each human subject, this metapsychology of love attempts to integrate issues in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, art history, and literary and film studies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Stanford University Press

Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato’s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called “world love,” the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freud’s assertion that the “loss of reality” associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself. In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the world―that the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned to what she terms world spectatorship. Drawing on Heidegger’s phenomenological elaboration of care as the being distinctive of human being and the primarily Lacanian conceptualization of the language of desire specific to each human subject, this metapsychology of love attempts to integrate issues in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, art history, and literary and film studies.

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The Subject of Semiotics

SUBJECT SEMIOTICS P

The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Male Subjectivity at the Margins

The Threshold of the Visible World

The Threshold of the Visible World

How Soon Is Now?

World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present)

World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present)