How to Read Lacan

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Books by Slavoj Žižek

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'The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire' Jacques Lacan

Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality?

Slavoj Žižek's passionate defence of Lacan reasserts the ethical urgency of psychoanalysis. Traditionally, psychoanalysis was expected to allow the patient to overcome the obstacles which prevented access to 'normal' sexual enjoyment; today, however, we are bombarded from all sides by different versions of the injunction 'Enjoy!' Lacan reminds us that psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy.

Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of reading, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology. Lacan is read with Hegel and Hitchcock, with Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.

Product Details
Zizek, Slavoj and Simon Critchley (Series Editor). How to Read Lacan. New York: W.W. Norton. 2007. W. W. Norton. January 29, 2007, 1st edition, Paperback, 128 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0393329550. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.