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How to Read Lacan

By Simon Critchley , Slavoj Žižek

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2007
ISBN
0393329550, 9780393329551
LCC
BF109.L23 Z59 2007
Open Library ID
OL7454405M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5203199 bytes)
Series
How to Read
Edition
1
Pages
73\73
Topic
Education
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

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