Enjoy Your Symptom

Žižek, S. (1992) Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan In Hollywood and Out, London and New York: Routledge. Picking up on one of the themes of For They Know Not What They Do, Žižek here attends to the ideology of cynicism - the fetishist 'I know very well . . . but all the same . . .'formulation which is one of the mainstays of his work. The book is structured around five chap- ters, each of which endeavours to explain a fundamental Lacanian concept - letter, woman, repetition, phallus and father. Hollywood is once again the lure in this text as Zižek elaborates each concept with reference to popular culture. However, as with Looking Awry, the famil- iarity of the examples does not necessarily make this the most accessible of his books to read.