![]() ![]() ![]() Zizeks fellow theorist Judith Butler writes on the back cover of one of his books: Slavoj. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Indeed, Lacan once cruelly quipped of James Joyce that, although what he wrote was almost psychotic in its refusal to fix meaning, this writing was also the only thing that saved him from actual psychosis - and we think the same is true of Zizek as well. Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of. 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. Lacan reminds us that 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. 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. “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. ![]()
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