Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy)

Author: Scott WilsonPublisher: RoutledgePaperback:ISBN 10: 178220198XISBN 13: 978-1782201984Hardcover:ISBN 10: 0367327120ISBN 13: 978-0367327125This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. It presents contemporary examples that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of discontent and a form of orientation. About the Author Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at the London Graduate School, Kingston University, London. His books include The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment, Great Satan’s Rage: American Negativity and Rap/Metal in the Age of Supercapitalism, and Melancology: Black Metal and Ecology. He is the editor with Michael Dillon of the Journal for Cultural Research.