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A review by emipov
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture by Slavoj Žižek
4.0
Unfortunately I haven't seen or read the majority of the references in this book - I need to return after watching Hitchcock's entire catalogue, to start - but Zizek does a pretty good job of explaining the important parts so that I still understood more or less what he was getting at. A challenging read but an enjoyable one nonetheless, and I think it works well as an introduction to Lacan as well as Zizek himself.
"We can acquire a sense of the dignity of another's fantasy only by assuming a kind of distance toward our own, by experiencing the ultimate contingency of fantasy as such, by apprehending it as the way everyone, in a manner proper to each, conceals the impasse of his desire. The dignity of a fantasy consists in its very 'illusionary,' fragile, helpless character."
"We can acquire a sense of the dignity of another's fantasy only by assuming a kind of distance toward our own, by experiencing the ultimate contingency of fantasy as such, by apprehending it as the way everyone, in a manner proper to each, conceals the impasse of his desire. The dignity of a fantasy consists in its very 'illusionary,' fragile, helpless character."