How To Read Lacan

by Slavoj Žižek

What awaits me ‘there’ is not a deep Truth that I have to identify with, but an unbearable truth that I have to learn to live with.

psychoanalysis at its most fundamental is not a theory and technique of treating psychic disturbances, but a theory and practice that confronts individuals with the most radical dimension of human existence.

for Lacan, the goal of psychoanalytic treatment is not the patient’s wellbeing, successful social life or personal fulfilment, but to bring the patient to confront the elementary coordinates and deadlocks of his or her desire.