Robert Lassalle-Klein

Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty

“Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty by Ali Chavoshian and Jung Eun Sophia Park is a remarkable interdisciplinary and intercultural study distilling contributions from Jacques Lacan’s influential psychoanalytic, cultural, and political ideas to contemporary discussions of postcolonialism, race, gender, and late capitalism in Hong Kong, the U.S., Korea, Iran, China, and Europe. Authors from around the globe (with a strong emphasis on Asia) repristinate Lacan insights on anxiety, uncertainty, Neo-Freudian object-relations theory, intersubjectivity, women's sexuality, and ‘the Real’ (among many others) for a new generation, including people of color and non-western discussions of culture, ministry, theology, biblical studies, social science, and the body. The product of an intensive nine-year international seminar, each author draws challenging new fruits from Lacan’s Seminars, beginning in 1951 post-war France while a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and concluding in 1980, just over two years before the January 1, 1983, U.S. Defense Data Network adoption of the TCP/IP protocol created the internet. Accessible to experts and beginners, this book will challenge every reader!”