{"product_id":"how-to-read-lacan-9780393329551","title":"How to Read Lacan","description":"The \u003cem\u003eHow to Read\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Slavoj Zizek'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI. Ek, Slavoj:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Slavoj i ek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, heads the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. His numerous books, translated into more than thirty languages, include The Parallax View and Lacan: The Silent Partners.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZižek, Slavoj:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Slavoj Zižek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, heads the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. His numerous books, translated into more than thirty languages, include The Parallax View and Lacan: The Silent Partners.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZizek, Slavoj:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/strong\u003e, philosopher and psychoanalyst, heads the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. His numerous books, translated into more than thirty languages, include \u003cem\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLacan: The Silent Partners\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627553984786,"sku":"9780393329551","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b443ade-ae5b-400c-b240-e40acc61e674.jpg?v=1732676065","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-read-lacan-9780393329551","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}