The metastases of winning: Svenska Spel advertisements through the lens of a Žižeko-Lacanian critique of ideology

Culture and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 347-360

  Lennerfors, Thomas Taro ^a   Sköld, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advertisement; Gambling; Ideology; Jouissance; Lacan; Winning; Zizek

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949358876     PISSN: 14759551     EISSN: 14772760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14759550903250783     Document Type: Article

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