Jacques Lacan Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English 895 pages I am re-reading this as I have only recently bought it again after lending it to a studen

Jacques Lacan Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English 895 pages I am re-reading this as I have only recently bought it again after lending it to a student a few years ago. Not for the faint hearted. A most controversial psychoanalyst and disparaging about fellow psychoanalysts. Psychoanalysts do not say that they know in so many words, but they imply that they do. We do know a bit about it, but let's keep quiet about that. Let's keep it between ourselves. We enter this field of knowledge by way of a unique experience that consists, quite simply, in being psychoanalyzed. After that, you can talk. Being able to talk does not mean that you do talk. You could. You could if you wanted to, and you would want to if you were talking to people like us, people who are in the know, but what's the point? And so, we remain silent with those who do know and those who don't know, because those who don't know cannot know.