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How To Read Lacan
By Slavoj Zizek
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2006-09-04
Publication Date:
2006-09-04
Publisher:
Granta Books
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1862078947
ISBN13:
9781862078949
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Weight:
114 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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