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How to Read Lacanby Slavoj Zizek
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 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. Book News Annotation:In this American reprint of Zizek's (humanities, Birkbeck College) 2006 text, the author examines a selection of extracts from Lacan's written works, analyzing them in detail to reveal their central ideas. 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. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:"The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire."--Jacques Lacan
Synopsis:The How to Readseries 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 iek"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. About the AuthorSlavoj Zizek, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is co-director of the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. He lives in London. Series editor Simon Critchley teaches philosophy at various universities, including The New School in New York City. His books include Continental Philosophy.
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