Pixar with Lacan

The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From <i>Monsters Inc</i> to <i>Toy Story</i> and <i>Wall-E </i> 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?<i><br/><br/>Pixar with Lacan </i>has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice the gaze partial object the Other the object <i>a</i> 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.