Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis, by Daniel Hourigan

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Notes

1. Hourigan notes, however, following Jacques Lacan, that there cannot be an enjoyment or jouissance of the law but only a law of enjoyment (2, n. 1).

2. Some of these chapters engage with and take up examples analyzed by others in relation to these themes – such as Žižek on Kafka or The Recruit, or William P. MacNeil on Minority Report – but the critical engagements here play-off and extend these readings in important and sophisticated ways.

3. William P. MacNeil, Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 10. As Hourigan makes explicit, his work follows both the Slovenian school of psychoanalysis (Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar, and Renata Salecl) as well as psychoanalysis's uptake in critical and cultural legal studies (MacNeil, Peter Goodrich, Jeanne Schroeder, Desmond Manderson, Juliet Rogers, Alison Young, and Costas Douzinas).