Judy GrovesReseñas

A quick read that leaves Lacan still a mystery to me.

An enjoyable, understandable overview of political philosophy from the ancient world to modern times. Moving in a more-or-less historical direction, the descriptions will typically explain a philosopher's objections/responses to what preceded them. That works fine until you get to modern times, where we're kind of left with contemporary philosophers having the last word. While I liked the idea of having illustrations to enliven the text, the drawings themselves were mostly amateurish in execution and odd in content. They really don't add much apart from keeping the text from looking too dense on the page.

Um excelente livro para ter uma ideia das ideologias políticas. Livro muito sintético, com desenhos alusivos que ajudam a manter o interesse, mesmo o dos pouco interessados nestes temas.

This is an engaging text that helped me understand Lacanian theory, or at least gave me more words for it, but more importantly gives helpful context for Lacan's work. I didn't laugh but I could have, once, but I decided not to.

Me parece que a teoria lacaniana é demasiado complexa para tudo que este livro quer abarcar, pois ele vai além do mero introducing e aborda temas que só quem se aprofundou na teoria tem acesso total de entendimento.

This series of books is heavy on illustrations, and does a good job of explaining complicated ideas while being fun, concise, and accurate. This one on Lacan provides a nice introduction to his some of his psychological theories, but due to the complexity of his ideas it is not quite as easy to follow as some other books in the series, so some sections benefit from re-reading.
One of Lacan's most influential theories is the "Mirror Stage" of child development, which answers a question posed by Freud. In addition to this, a lot of his other work expands upon Freud, so some familiarity with his writings is recommended before attempting Lacan. Apart from Freudian stuff, Lacan also had some interesting ideas on Language, and the use of symbolic logic in describing psychological and sociological theories, so there's really a lot of ideas packed into this short book. Lacan isn't the easiest thinker to get to grips with, but this intoduction does a good job of explaining his theories so that they can be understood by the general reader. Definitely recommended if you want to start learning about Lacan, but for those who haven't read much psychology then Freud would be a better starting place.

This book literally got me through grad school. After days and days of reading sentences of Lacan over and over in the hopes of understanding something, anything- even if it was wrong- this book came and created light out of darkness! Highly recommended to anyone studying Lacan!

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) highly influential and hugely controversial French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Using methods from structural linguistics and topology he built on and developed further Freudian theory. This text gives a glimpse of Lacan’s ideas, their development over a lifetime and their roots with Freud and in his own clinical practice. Notwithstanding the title much remains obscure. That may be a good thing: over-simplification of complex ideas is no help to understanding. The text comes alive in the graphic images. It is enjoyable to follow even if getting lost at times. If this short outline tempts further study it has achieved its aim. (VIII-10)

Creative and fast overview that still conveys some of the deeper concepts and the impact on later schools of thought. I find this series very effective relative to many of the other approaches to survey.