Psychoanalysis is now dead, or should we interpret the frequent attacks it faces regarding its theoretical "errors" and clinical "frauds" as indications of its resilience?

In this essay, Slavoj Zizek passionately defends Lacan and demonstrates that psychoanalysis is still morally relevant.

Traditionally, psychoanalysis was supposed to empower the patient to overcome the barriers that limited access to "normal" sexual pleasure. Today, however, we are constantly bombarded from all sides with different versions of the same imperative: "Enjoy!". Lacan reminds us that the discourse of psychoanalysis is the only one in which we are allowed not to enjoy.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]