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How to Read Lacan

English · Paperback / Softback

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

Summary

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

Product details

Authors Slavoj I. Ek, Zi&, Slavoj Zizek
Assisted by Simon Critchley (Editor)
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2007
 
EAN 9780393329551
ISBN 978-0-393-32955-1
No. of pages 144
Dimensions 126 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
Weight 154 g
Series How to Read
How to Read
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis

Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis

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