Žižek’s short guide on his idol, potentially imagined soulmate; Lacan.

Rather than offering a tidy introduction to the triad of Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real, he moves through cinema, jokes, ideology, and popular culture to stage Lacan as a thinker of desire and structure rather than obscurity. The book is polemical in miniature — part primer, part argument about why Lacan still matters.

It sits comfortably within the “How to Read” series but carries Žižek’s signature velocity. For readers already adjacent to theory — not absolute beginners — it works best as a reframing tool: a way of situating Lacan within contemporary cultural and political analysis.