2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

• Main Author: Bristow, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Motion pictures.; Philosophy and science.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Film Theory.; Self and Identity.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Philosophy of Science.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did....