Lacan and our libidinal lust for violence

Through Lacanian psychoanalysis, Dr Mark Piccini examines Latin American writers who tell stories of violence from Latin America that hold us all to account. Through characters from the North whose violence precedes and anticipates that in Latin America and voyeuristic narrators whose enthusiasm for and exaggeration of Latin American violence mirrors our own appetites, these stories establish a libidinal network of narrative complicity

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As for me, I'm just a filmmaker who likes talking about weird shit with academics, and this is a short from the series Violence with Mark Piccini.