Lacan\'s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profound paradox.
For Lacan, psychoanalysis is a procedure of reading and each chapter reads a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology..
Slavoj Zizek\'s passionate defense of Lacan reasserts Lacan\'s ethical urgency.
Traditionally, psychoanalysis was expected to allow the patient to overcome the obstacles which prevented access to normal sexual enjoyment; today, however, we are bombarded by different versions of the injunction Enjoy Psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy.
Lacan\'s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profound paradox