How can I understand Lacan without wasting my time deciphering his obscurantist texts?

(Second sources, videos, etc...)

>>24541724 (OP)
its ok you can just pretend you understand

>>24541724 (OP)
Read Kristeva, and then Zizek's Sublime Object.

Mikael Borc-Jacobsen -- Lacan the absolute master for a summary and takedown

Read Fink if want an insider perspective

>>24541742
>>24541749
Thank you anons, I love this board

>>24541724 (OP)
One of my colleagues really liked Zizeks Hitchcock book about lacan. Im generally against most secondary sources for Lacan though, even from zizek who has his own way of fashioning continental thinkers that dont do justice to their actual work.

It really isn't hard though, start with seminar 10, remember that at the end of every lecture Lacan always ends his seminars by spilling the beans on what he really means and gets rid of the jargon. It isn't hard to get what he's saying if you just take the time to endure through everything even if you dont get it and take notes. One of his essays in the ecrit that started with "subversion of the subject" is also a good read, maybe not exactly a starter but it provides a little background for what lacan is aiming for when he is making psychoanalysis a science.

>>24541724 (OP)
>without wasting my time deciphering his obscurantist texts
You don't want to understand Lacan then. The obscurantist bullshit is literally part of it. Once you read the secondary literature about it you'll see.

>>24541775
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>>24541724 (OP)
That's a big fucking nose!

>>24541952
>brazil shirt
well, she is a nigger, what do you expect?

>>24541948
Shut up cunt, we were about to fuck him up.

Asuka? My waifu? (Or is it wifão?)

>>24541724 (OP)
Lacan is a fraud, read Scuton and save yourself the trouble.
Although I enjoy to say, as of a negro, that he is trapped on the other side of Lacan's mirror.

>>24541951
It's written by a woman so I expected it to be bad. But the art does something for me.

>>24541948
Really? I don't think it's that necessary. You could explain something like the mirror stage in a few pages without obscuring it under a bunch of french bullshit or pseudoscience math

Reading Zizek and McGowan's interpretations of him helped me see the world in a different light, even if I don't always agree. I can't stop trying to analyze all kinds of social scenarios and utterances now, though it is pretty fun.

Women are so beautiful