Is Buffy a Lacanian? Sunnydale, or, what is enlightenment?
- Dr Matthew Sharpe
Dr Sharpe quote: "The philosophical lament of the undead."
That was pretty much the only phrase I fully understood in his entire talk. Sounds pretty gothy to me.
My other notes read:
What does noumenal mean?
Zizek?
Lacan?
Sharpe unfortunately got his audience completely wrong. I'm no slouch, but if I can't follow what you're saying then I'm pretty sure the other 499 people in the room are having a tough time too.
Further research reveals that:
From Dictionary.com
Noumenal
n. pl. nou·me·na (-n)
In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. Also called thing-in-itself.
Zizek:
From The European Graduate School
Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher, Institute of Sociology, University of
Ljubljana/ Slovenia, and visiting professor at American universities
(Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research New York, University of Michigan).
Ph.D.(Philosophy, Ljubljana; Psychoanalysis, University of Paris).
A cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his use of
Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture and is admired as a true
"manic excessive". Author of The Invisible Reminder; The Sublime Object of Ideology;
The Metastases of Enjoyment; Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture;
The Plague of Fantasies; The Ticklish Subject.
Jacques Lacan is a French psychoanalyst.
Oh, you want more? Here you go then: Jacques Lacan