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Book reviews: Žižek and Law, edited by Laurent de Sutter. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015, xi + 254pp (£80 hardback). ISBN: 9781138801844.

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Book reviews: Žižek and Law, edited by Laurent de Sutter. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015, xi + 254pp (£80 hardback). ISBN: 9781138801844.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Linda Roland Danil*
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University of Leeds
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References

75. L de Sutter (ed) Žižek and Law (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015).

76. M Aristodemou ‘The pervert's guide to the law: clinical vignettes from Breaking Bad to breaking free’ in de Sutter, ibid, pp 13–30.

77. Ibid, p 13.

78. [2012] UKSC 56.

79. Aristodemou, above n 2, p 14.

80. See also Žižek, S Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992);Google Scholar and Žižek, S In Defense of Lost Causes (London: Verso, 2008).Google Scholar

81. Aristodemou, above n 2, p 21.

82. Ibid, p 26.

83. Lacan, J The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan 1959–1960: Book VII (Abingdon: Routledge Classics, 2008).Google Scholar

84. Aristodemou, above n 2, p 28.

85. MA Rothenberg ‘Changing the subject: rights, revolution, and capitalist discourse’ in de Sutter, above n 1, pp 42–59.

86. See in particular Žižek, S The Parallax View (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006); and S Žižek Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses; available at http://www.lacan.com/zizfour.htm (accessed 1 May 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

87. Lacan, J The Other Side of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XVII (New York: WW Norton, 2007).Google Scholar

88. Žižek, S Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (New York: Routledge Classics, 2008).Google Scholar

89. See eg Fink, B The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) p 44.Google Scholar

90. Rothenberg, above n 11, p 43; emphasis in the original.

91. Ibid.

92. J Lacan Discourse of Jacques Lacan at the University of Milan on May 12, 1972, trans JW Stone; available at http://web.missouri.edu/~stonej/Milan_Discourse2.pdf (accessed 23 April 2015).

93. Rothenberg, above n 11, p 50.

94. C McMillan ‘Changing fantasies: Žižek and the limits of democracy’ in de Sutter above n 1, pp 60–79.

95. Ibid, p 60.

96. Ibid, p 61.

97. See eg Žižek, S In Defence of Lost Causes (London: Verso, 2008).Google Scholar

98. McMillan, above n 20, p 71; emphasis in the original.

99. Žižek, S The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (London: Verso, 2012).Google Scholar

100. F Vighi ‘The ambiguous remainder: contemporary capitalism and the becoming law of the symptom’ in de Sutter above n 1, pp 80–97.

101. Ibid, p 80; emphasis in the original.

102. Ibid. Vighi draws upon, in particular, Žižek, S The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 2008)Google Scholar and The Metastases of Enjoyment (London: Verso, 2005).Google Scholar

103. Vighi, above n 26, p 95.

104. Ibid, p 96.

105. S Žižek ‘Postscript: the rule of law between obscenity and the right to distress’ in de Sutter, above n 1, pp 220–247.

106. Ibid, p. 220.

107. Žižek, above n 31, p 225.

108. Ibid.

109. Ibid, p 232.

110. Rothenberg, above n 11, p 58.