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Don't let anyone tell you they know what the f-ck is going on in this book. Its the craziest thing of all time. And to think, he was doing therapy analyzing people's sanity when in fact, one glance at this text will reveal Lacan himself is batshit crazy, I mean like hanging from the chandelier witho Leggi tutto

Lacan isn't an easy read. If you're interested in learning about Lacan's ideas, it's probably a much better idea to start with something like Zizek's How to Read Lacan , which will give you the concepts without Lacan's sadistic writing style. But, I find something compelling with Lacan's writing, infu Leggi tutto

Some dumb book by a French guy.

You, Goodreader, should know I’m not a scholar; my stature does not depend on publishing a defense or rebuttal of so-and-so’s perishable rendition of this-or-that. I have no academic training, no degrees, no guidance and no constraints. I just read. Pretty soon I hope I’ll be good at it. Forget How- Leggi tutto

The key to deciphering these essays are to realize that Lacan thinks psychoanalysis is real and is instrumental in understanding the difference without a concept and he sincerely believes in the fundamental truth of psychoanalysis that the truth is hidden from us within our unconsciousness that gets Leggi tutto

It's strange, but for me very true, that the best poetry I've ever read postures itself not as poetry but as psychoanalysis, positioned in a kind of wierd overlapped space shared by literature, science, art, history, philosophy, and pyschoanalysis - one of the first truely interdisciplinary schools

Some of these reviews crack me up. This is not a book that one reads once if they are going to understand Lacanian Psychoanalytic theory. It is much better to start out with other authors such as Bruce Fink. There is quite a list of them and many are very good. Another option is to begin with the se Leggi tutto