Pixar with Lacan The Hysteric's Guide to Animation

The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications?

Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.

1. Introduction

2. Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story 1

3. Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 2

4. Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 3

5. Entertainment as Warfare: A Bug's Life

6. There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc.

7. Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo

8. More than Super: The Incredibles

9. The Mother Road: Cars

10. Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille

11. Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell: Wall-E

12. His Master's Voice: Up

13. Conclusion

Epilogue: Animation and Capitalism

Bibliography

Index

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