How To Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek

How To Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek

'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 Zizek'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, applying his ideas to Hegel and Hitchcock, Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.

Zizek's books [are so] erudite and witty [that] they're quite moreishThe range and scope of his analogies are tremendous -- Mark Wallinger, artist * On My Radar, Observer *

Slavoj Zizek philosopher and psychoanalyst, heads the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. His numerous books, translated into more than 30 languages, include The Parallax View and Lacan: the Silent Partners.

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ISBN 10	1862078947
Title	How To Read Lacan
Author	Slavoj Zizek
Series	How To Read
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2006-09-04
Number of pages	128
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