Law and Enjoyment
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Law and Enjoyment

Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis

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Law and Enjoyment

Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis

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This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of 'enjoyment'. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basis for a wider understanding of law, beyond the strictures of legal institutions and professional practices – it takes up a range of case studies from film and literature in order to consider how law is iterated through enjoyment, and how enjoyment embodies law. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, this book addresses issues such as the forced choice to enjoy the law, the biopolitics of tyranny, the enjoyment of law's contingency, the trauma of the law's symbolic codification of pleasure, and the futuristic vision of law's transgression. In so doing, it forges an important case for acknowledging and analyzing the complex relationship between power and pleasure in law – one that will be of considerable interest to legal theorists, as well as those with interests in the intersection of psychoanalytic and cultural theory.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
9781317598404
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Reading law with Lacan
  9. 2 Law’s forced choice (to enjoy)
  10. 3 Law and contingency
  11. 4 Capitalist subjectivity and the Wissenschaft of jurisprudence
  12. 5 The master and knowledge after nihilism
  13. 6 Enjoyment and restorative justice
  14. 7 Law, transgression and The Cares of a Family Man
  15. 8 Coraline, or l’envers de la loi
  16. 9 Psyche and authority
  17. 10 The legal and the erotic in True Blood
  18. 11 Power and jouissance in The City & The City
  19. 12 Contract and conflict in Eve Online
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index