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. Slavoj Žižek’s passionate defense of Lacan reasserts Lacan’s ethical urgency. His numerous books, translated into more than 30. 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 Zizek philosopher and psychoanalyst, heads the International Center of Humanities at Birkbeck College. 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 How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. “The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire.”-Jacques Lacan
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