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A review by canoe
How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Žižek
3.0
Parts of this book are absolutely excellent. Despite this, I continually found examples taken from novels and films to be more contrived than actually demonstrating the underlying concepts.
It is definitely worth the read, and is easy to get into and to understand. I couldn't help feeling that the part about God being unconscious rather than dead purposefully brushed over Nietzsche's statement that although God is dead, "his shadow still looms."
I found myself oscillating between agreeing and disagreeing with the major concepts of this book. Fittingly, if asked if I agreed with the book as a whole I would have to say "yesno".
It is definitely worth the read, and is easy to get into and to understand. I couldn't help feeling that the part about God being unconscious rather than dead purposefully brushed over Nietzsche's statement that although God is dead, "his shadow still looms."
I found myself oscillating between agreeing and disagreeing with the major concepts of this book. Fittingly, if asked if I agreed with the book as a whole I would have to say "yesno".