I found the coolest book ever this morning. I needed a pretty simplistic guide to Lacan as I still don’t fully understand him, so I ordered one from the library. It arrived this morning, so I took it to the wes to read it over a coffee. When I opened it, I burst out laughing.

It had pictures!

Do you remember the reading books at school with large cartoonish drawings and a few lines of writing? The book was laid out exactly like that! You should see the dubious drawings of Freud! Mind you, the text wasn’t so childish – Lacanian theory is fairly complex, no matter how simply you try to put it.

To me, this book is the epitome of cool. It’s just so kitsch, in that it juxtapositions the childish and the adult. It’s also probably a Lacanian statement, although I’m not sure. Either way, it proves that psychologists do have a sense of humour after all.