The Metastases of Enjoyment keyword-non-fiction from rape and child abuse

from rape and child abuse to ethnic conflict and uncivil war

they allow the spectator to experience the totality of the audiovisual thrill

Britain’s Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters

Rousseau and Voltaire

Yvonne Gregory

The Metastases of Enjoyment keyword-non-fiction from rape and child abuseThe experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of irrational violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The authors analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of The Crying Game and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power