"The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire."--Jacques Lacan

About this Book... "A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage,

Reading Lancan's Ecrits -- The American other -- Where to begin? -- Directions for a return to Freud -- Interstory -- Metaphor and metonymy -- Reading the phall

Slavoj ?i?ek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. ?i?ek inverts c

Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and