Very niche but very good

This is a beautiful purchase for anyone looking for an entry point into Lacan. Highly recommended. #Mindbending #Psychoanalysis #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes

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interesting and useful

very interesting and useful intro to Lacan. Recommended to those taking Anthropology and psychoanalysis .

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Strong introduction to the ineffable

Lacan's brilliance and obtuseness come through in this enjoyable tour of his major innovations. I appreciated the book's framing of Lacanian psychoanalysis as intentionally controversial. The reading is probably as good as it could be, despite the occasional pain of hearing Lacan's mathemes - algebraic notations for linguistic structures - fully articulated. Highly recommended for newcomers to this relevant, fertile body of thought.

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Great Introduction to Difficult Thinker

Lacan is one of the most intimidating intellectual thinkers, this introduction made his ideas very clear and accessible.

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Sharp. Succinct. Demystifying.

I developed extracurricular interest in Lacan when I was in college (Lacan was not on the menu there). I was a social anthropology major with a keen interest in the application of ego psychology and related concepts of self-construction to research. And Lacan’s notion of the subject as fiction fascinated me to death. But I couldn’t crack Lacan’s writing. I gleaned what I could from loads of commentary that was all far too advanced for me. And finally gave up after attaining little more than inkling of understanding. Well! I just stumbled into and read the ‘Bolinda Beginner’s Guide to Lacan’ - this is fifteen years later. And now I’m glad that I hung onto my bookshelf of challenging commentary because Lionel Bailly has given me new hope for getting a better grip on that illusory deeper understanding. This book is the perfect entry point to Lacanian analysis for the true beginner. Hint for success: Ignore the mathematical representations if they put you off at all. I don’t believe they’re necessary to basic understanding.

Great and clear intro to Lacanian theory

I have learned a lot with this very clear and well walkthrough on Lacan and his theory!

If Lacanian thought interests you, read this book

A concise, and theoretically thorough entry point to Lacanian thought, with very little clutter. Recommended.

Very good overview of Lacan’s work

This book is a great introduction to Lacan and his theory. Lacan is an especially complicated thinker and this book is a help guide to his theory. The focus of this book is his contributions clinical psychoanalysis and focus less on his contributions to philosophy.

Useful to understand the obscurantism of Lacan

This book has truly helped me to make a bit of sense of the obscure "philosophy" of Lacan. Throughout the content of the book Bailly manages to be relatively impartial and highlights the limits of the Lacanian concepts, the historical background, and most of all he manages to elucidate Lacan's work... as much as possible. This book has been more helpful for me, as a post graduate psychology student in France, than the courses thought as part of my studies by the professors (all Lacanian psychoanalysts). Nevertheless, if I did not have to read Lacan's work for my exams, I would not contemplate reading/listening to this book, due to what I find to be a very limited contribution of Lacan (if any) to psychology in general and psychotherapy in particular.

Lacan, challenging but rewarding

way more than what I bargained for, I've listened to the lecture series twice it's difficult to get at first but really fleshes out a lot of what's going on