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How To Read Lacan

By Slavoj Zizek
Series: How to Read
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Slavoj Zizek passionately defends the relevance of Lacan's psychoanalysis, emphasising its unique ethical urgency. Challenging the modern imperative to 'Enjoy!', Zizek highlights how Lacan's work permits the acceptance of not enjoying. The book uses Lacan's texts as a lens to interpret philosophy, art, and popular culture, drawing on figures like Hegel, Hitchcock, Shakespeare, and Dostoevsky.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural theory, particularly those familiar with Lacan or wishing to understand his complex ideas through accessible examples.

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Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality?

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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. Lacan is read with Hegel and Hitchcock, with Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.

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Mark Wallinger praises Zizek's writing as erudite and witty, noting the tremendous range and scope of his analogies, which make the book thoroughly engaging.

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ISBN: 9781862078949

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 September 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 110g

Pages: 128

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Series: How to Read Slavoj Zizek

About the Author

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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