This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social
scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman. The authors question
where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of
a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject
explore implications of Lacanian teachings in relation to the environment freedom and
biopolitics and investigate the subjective enjoyments of and anxieties over nonhumans in
literature film and digital media. This innovative volume fills a valuable gap in the
literature extending investigations into an important and topical strand of the social
sciences for both analytic and pedagogical purposes.
