Pixar with lacan: the hysteric's guide to animation
Rosing, Lilian MunkUnknown
Bloomsbury Academic (New York, 2017) (eng) English9781501320170UnknownUnknownPIXAR(FIRM); UnknownThe 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.
Physical dimension
181 p.23 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
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1. Introduction2. Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story 13. Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 24. Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 35. Hey Water, I'm in my Soup: A Bug's Life6. There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc. 7. Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo8. More than Super: The Incredibles9. The Mother Road: Cars10. Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille11. Wall-E: Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell12. His Master's Voice: Up13. ConclusionBibliographyIndex.
Responsibility: Lilian Munk Ròˆsing.