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Something is Missing is a book trying to demystify the abundance of popular literature on love, sex and life, starting from a Lacanian / psychoanalytic point and eventually ending up in a Marxist / revolutionary one, traversing many areas of popular culture, especially cinema. It attempts to address the Lacanian concepts of lack, desire, the Real and jouissance, through the feminist critique of Lacanianism and the Foucauldian concept of the policies of Truth. And although it categorically denies the existence of a single, attainable, knowable Truth in itself, it endeavors to point out that the search for truth(s) is the only thing that lends any meaning to "Life, the Universe and Everything", apart, of course, from "42", which is Douglas Adams' answer to the same question.
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Author Biography
Bülent Somay received his PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck College, London. He worked as a freelance writer, journalist, musician and editor, and as the Director of Cultural Studies Program of Istanbul Bilgi University Comparative Literature Department. Somay is on the editorial board of the online International Journal of Zizek Studies. He published six books in Turkish and two books in English: The View from the Masthead (Bilgi University Press) and The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father (Palgrave Macmillan).
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- Publisher Metis Publishers
- Orginal LanguageTurkish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789753426053
- Publication Country or regionTurkey
- FormatPaperback
- Pages128
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleBir Şeyler Eksik
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