5/8/2023 0 Comments Slavoj zizek how to read lacan![]() But like any session of psychoanalysis, this constant avoidance makes the subject all the more present. Here I feel that Žižek is creating all this activity in order to avoid having to talk about Lacan. “In psychoanalytic treatment, obsessinal neurotics talk constantly, inundating the analyst with anecdotes, dreams, insights: their incessant activity is sustained by the underlying fear that, if they stop talking for a moment, the analyst will ask them the question that really matters-in other words, they talk in order to keep the analyst still.” A style he, or perhaps the Other, describes in his discussion of false activity: Scott Fitzgerald, Zhdanov, Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Kubrick, Leibnitz and Donald Rumsfeld.) The style is classic Žižek. But also quote from Freud, Levi-Strauss, Rawls, Searle, Dennett, Marx, Lukacs, Kafka, Dostoevsky, F. ![]() But unlike other books in the series ( How to Read Wittgenstein, How to Read Sartre, etc.) I am not sure this one has all that much to say about its subject, in this case Jacques Lacan. ![]() Slavoj Žižek’s How to Read Lacan is very enjoyable to read, thought-provoking and often funny and amusing. ![]()
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