How to Read Lacan

✍ Scribed by Slavoj Zizek, Simon Critchley

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 73
Series: How to Read
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

“The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire.”—Jacques Lacan

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core ideas about enjoyment, which re-created our concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan’s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profound paradox. Traditionally, psychoanalysis was expected to allow the patient to overcome the obstacles which prevented access to "normal" sexual enjoyment; today, however, we are bombarded by different versions of the injunction "Enjoy!" Psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy. Slavoj Žižek’s passionate defense of Lacan reasserts Lacan’s ethical urgency. For Lacan, psychoanalysis is a procedure of reading and each chapter reads a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology.

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