What the hell is the point of this book? Why do we need yet ANOTHER picayune description of the Oedipus Complex? Answer - we don't. Stop wasting my time. I read this in an afternoon and I wish I could have that time back again. Ranciere is an artist, not a 'philosopher' but this is just boring. If you want to read an interesting book by Jacques Ranciere try - Disagreement, or On the Shores of Politics. Those are well worth the time and effort. THIS (horseshit) is just dull, academese, interesting for professional psychoanalysts on the University Conference Circuit...bleck. Here's a tip Jacques - stop writing about Freud and stay true to the revolution. Remember, you are a communist first, an academic second, and nobody wants to take the time for these dully-dullerson books. Stay confusing my friend. Making sense is not your thing.
This book, conceptually, has so much potential... initially I though it would be a theorization about How the Unconscious can be conceptualized as a work of art... BOY was I sorely disappointed. Anyway, I'll just stop ranting and get on with life. Don't waste your time. He has interesting books, this is not one of them. 2nd graders would be enamored with this if it had pictures, but it doesn't.