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Opening each of the seven chapters of his work How to Read Lacan with a specific quote from the famous French psychoanalyst's corpus of texts and applying it to the interpretation of various philosophical, artistic and ideological products, Slava Žižek clearly demonstrates the art of reading with Lacan, while at the same time, like a skilled magician, imperceptibly turning it into an interpretation of Lacan himself. The Slovenian philosopher, as in many of his other works, focuses on the human subject, his/her decentered desire, the dimensions of interpassivity and the Other, as well as the intricacies of the super-ego and the law, which in our permissive era of a kind of "coercion to enjoyment" acquire a completely new sound. Slavoj Žižek's How to Read Lacan, first published in 2006 as part of the famous series of books on prominent thinkers under the general editorship of the British philosopher Simon Critchley, is not only an excellent introduction to the work of Lacan; is not only an unrivalled introduction to Jacques Lacan's system of thought, but also a passionate defence of psychoanalysis in general, which today is increasingly caught between the Scylla of ignorance and obscurantism and the Charybdis of over-optimistic pharmacological scientism.