Success is Failure: The Investigative Jouissance in Eating Disorders and Twin Peaks.
This article examines the structural homology between Lynch's investigative framework in Twin Peaks and the symptom formation in eating disorders, arguing that both operate through what we term "investigative jouissance"--a form of satisfaction derived from the endless deferral of resolution rather...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Žižek Studies Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 1 - 17 |
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International Journal of Zizek Studies
2025
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