Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Book Details
- Publisher : The Other Press
- Published : 1996
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2503
- ISBN 13 : 9781892746047
- ISBN 10 : 1892746042
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Michael Kulyk on 23/12/2014 23:37:05
(1 out of 5)
This book has a number of rave reviews claiming that it is user friendly and highly accessible. I disagree entirely. I'm familiar with Lacanian texts by Bruce Fink, Darian Leader, Lionel Bailly, and Danny Norbus and found them to be perfectly clear. But Dor's book completely takes the biscuit. I found the explanations in it veering between the insufficient and the incomprehensible.
My experience of reading this book was a combination of confusion, exasperation and puzzlement at how it ever got the wonderful reviews that it did.
I recommend Lionel Bailly's book Lacan: A beginner's guide instead of this awfully written book. Bailly is able to describe the process of metaphor, metonymy and synechdote in relation to the mechanisms of condensation and displacement and the development of the Lacanian unconscious in a very clear and accessible manner.