Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture Book

Preface
Acknowledgments
I How Real Is Reality?
1 From Reality to the Real
The Paradoxes of Objet Petit a
A Black Hole in Reality
2 The Real and Its Vicissitudes
How the Real Returns and Answers
How the Real Is Rendered and Knows
3 Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire
The Sherlock Holmes Way
The Philip Marlowe Way
II One Can Never Know Too Much about
Hitchcock4 How the Non-duped Err
"The Unconscious Is Outside"
Ladies Who Vanish
5 The Hitchcockian Blot
The Phallic Anamorphosis
The Maternal Superego
6 Pornography, Nostalgia, Montage: A Traid of the Gaze
The Perverse Short Circuit
The Hitchcockian Cut
III Fantasy, Bureaucracy, Democracy
7 The Ideological Sinthome
Gaze and Voice as Objects
"Love Thy Sinthome as Thyself"
8 The Obscene Object of Postmodernity
The Postmodernist Break
Bureaucracy and Enjoyment
9 Formal Democracy and Its Discontents
Toward and Ethic of Fantasy
The Nation-Thing
Notes
Index of Works Cited