Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Bibliographical Note iv
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Introduction: Locating the Lacanian Left 1
6. Part I Theory: Dialectics of Disavowal
7. 1 Antinomies of Creativity: Lacan and Castoriadis on Social Construction and the Political 37
8. 2 Laclau with Lacan on Jouissance: Negotiating the Affective Limits of Discourse 66
9. 3 Žižekian ‘Perversions’: The Lure of Antigone and the Fetishism of the Act 109
10. Part II Analysis: Dialectics of Enjoyment
11. 4 What Sticks? From Symbolic Power to Jouissance 163
12. 5 Enjoying the Nation: A Success Story? 189
13. 6 Lack of Passion: European Identity Revisited 211
14. 7 The Consumerist ‘Politics of Jouissance’ and the Fantasy of Advertising 227
15. 8 Democracy in Post-Democratic Times 254
16. Bibliography 286
17. Index 312