The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and
insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian
psychoanalyst's couch.
Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of
American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from
Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures
as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ.
Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis
from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory
in the twenty-first century.