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I would suggest that a better way to read Lacan is through the seminars and the accompanying Readings published by SUNY Press (see 'Works on Jacques Lacan' below).
The seminar is unquestionably an unusual reading experience.
Each seminar contains approximately 25 presentations from the fortnightly seminar (although they get shorter as Lacan reduces his theory to a set of mathematical formulas in his final years).
While each presentation is supposed to pick up and follow on from the week before, the connections can often be tenuous.
Unlike the Écrits, the seminars are not difficult to read, but it can still be hard to follow the train of associations and links that Lacan makes.
Usually, though, in a performative flourish Lacan will pull the whole presentation together in the final moments and provide a startlingly clear and understandable formulation of what he has been talking about.
So, however bewildering the seminar might seem, it is always worth following it through.
From the currently published seminars a good place to start would be Seminars II, VII and XI.
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