How to Read Lacan, Paperback

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 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.