A review by casparb
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan

Lacan remains for me just so difficult I've read a whole bunch on him now and I'm getting there! In dribs and drabs but it's still so gradual & it's a series of lectures designed for practising psychoanalysts with doctorates and so on so we Are Complicated. Anyway not all there for me but maybe rereads would help. Loving the writing on Love and the famous 'gift of shit' near the end. Also very plausible unravelling of the Unreal. Amazing melodrama of 'Hegeliano-Marxism' [thus!] producing a 'dark god'. Nice aside on Spinoza on the same page.

for how can one name a desire? One circumscribes a desire. There's a sense in which reading this book feels like circumscription but perhaps it will agglutinate for me I'm still going. Reminded me to read the Wolf-Man if nothing else