Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction
Elizabeth Grosz
I was hesitant to read this book when I saw the rating the reviewer below me gave to it. However, I've now learned that you can't always trust those who review books on amazon (common sense, I guess). I actually used this book "Jacques Lacan: A feminist intro" for my honors thesis this year at college. It has to be one of the books I relied on the most for my research. Lacan's concepts are always hard to get a handle on, but Grosz's book, along with anything written by Slavoj Zizek, serves as a great introduction to this French thinker's psychoanalytic theories. Also, this book shows (with good evidence too) that even though Lacan has some phallocentric ideas (okay, a lot of them), his work is still valuable to feminists and modern theory in general. I would definitely recommend.
