5/23/2023 0 Comments Slavoj žižek how to read lacan![]() ![]() ![]() Noam Chomsky once called Jacques Lacan “a total charlatan, just posturing before the television cameras the way many Paris intellectuals do. You can follow her on twitter at 4, 2022 at 11:04 pm Her work has appeared in Salon, LA Weekly, Variety, Mother Jones, and many other publications. Sheerly Avni is a San Francisco-based arts and culture writer. You can find Zizek’s book How to Read Lacan for free at the Lacan website, along with a treasure trove of videos dedicated to Zizek, Badiou and other Lacan-inspired thinkers. The book explaining how to read Zizek has not yet been written. But Lacan still has his fans, notably the “Elvis of Philosophy,” Slavoj Zizek, who dominates YouTube the way his predecessor once did salons. Lacan’s ideas have fallen a bit out of fashion in the past two decades, particularly in the U.S., where psychoanalysis has been nudged out of the spotlight by neuroscience and post-structuralism has lost ground to post-colonial studies. ![]() ![]() Note the grace with which Lacan neutralizes the poor guy, lights his cigar and then concludes the lecture, even though the fallout from their encounter is still stuck in his hair. It’s a moment right out of a comedy show, if the comedy show were chic and grainy and edited by Jean-Luc Goddard. At minute 21:37, a politically inspired heckler tries to ambush him. ![]()
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