Taking Back Desire

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86371-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series

Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion.

James Lawrence Slattery illuminates how the framing of desire, identity, enjoyment, resistance and knowledge contribute to the investment in neoliberal formations of being and success, despite the corrosive effects neoliberalism has had for much of society. The book does not read queerness on screen as a discernible group of characters or narrative formulas, but as a point that meaning fails in the visual and temporal field. Examining the interrelation of the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic in contemporary politics and contemporary media, Slattery investigates how a diverse selection of moving image texts forge queerness as a relationship to the lack, while crucially resisting the creation of a new or definitive ‘canon’.

Taking Back Desire will be essential reading for academics and scholars of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, queer theory, late capitalism, film, television and media studies, sexuality studies, critical race theory, cultural studies and feminist theory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slattery, James Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Foreword by Ian Parker

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Real of Realness: Pose, Paris Is Burning and the limits of authenticity

Chapter 2. The Feminine Shadow: Sexual difference, race and noir in Sharp Objects

Chapter 3. WELCOME 2 REALITY: Ryan Trecartin’s Priority Innfield

Chapter 4. Bodies That Shatter: The negative content of 120 BPM

Conclusion: Coda: Unfixed and Open-Ended

Bibliography and Filmography

Über Autor(innen)

James Lawrence Slattery completed their PhD in English and American Studies from the University of Manchester in 2023, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They also hold a master's degree in Film Aesthetics with distinction from the University of Oxford, formally organised the Manchester Queer Research Network, and have published essays and reviews in academic journals, edited collections and cultural publications. Their work investigates the moving image and visual culture to rethink identity and subjectivity in late-stage capitalism.