Stephen Sonnenberg on Sidney Phillips

Abstract

Letters to the editor read Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis and come away thinking that Lacan is valorizing or mandating anybody doing whatever he or she wants. Anyone who thinks Lacan is valorizing this form of hedonismwhether or not he has let his eyes go over the sentences and turned the pages-has not read the book. Thus, I do not think this is an interpretation that, in the context of a short comment, one needs explicitly to rule out.