How to Read Lacan

by Slavoj Žižek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393329550
• ISBN13: 9780393329551
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"