Subjectivity and Otherness A Philosophical Reading of Lacan

not a new series of books on psychoanalysis, but a series of “connections in the

Freudian field”—of short Lacanian interventions in art, philosophy, theology, and

ideology.

“Short Circuits” intends to revive a practice of reading which confronts a clas-

sic text, author, or notion with its own hidden presuppositions, and thus reveals

its disavowed truth. The basic criterion for the texts that will be published is that

they effectuate such a theoretical short circuit. After reading a book in this series,

the reader should not simply have learned something new: the point is, rather, to

make him or her aware of another—disturbing—side of something he or she

knew all the time.

Slavoj Zˇizˇek

series foreword