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. Slavoj Zizeks passionate defence of Lacan reasserts the ethical urgency of psychoanalysis. Slavoj Žižek’s passionate defense of Lacan reasserts Lacan’s ethical urgency. 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. Lacan’s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profound paradox. 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. A mode (s) of communication that go beyond. With Lacan, he seems to have a language within a language. “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. 49K views 1 year ago Lacan is one of the most difficult thinkers to read and decipher.
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