/lit/ - Literature

I just started reading Bruce Fink's Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis and it is an interesting and a more practical introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
I don't really plan on using it for clinical practice but it may serve well as a tool in everyday interactions, and may even help me analyze cultures once I get to Zizek.
So far the coverage on Psychosis helps me to retroactively understand my firsthand experience with my bipolar and clinically depressed gay cousin. Where his psychiatrist can only precribe ever-increasing dosages of his medicine, in this book Fink outlined the common 'symptoms' in psychotic patients that I have observed wth my cousin.
Such as the certainty that psychotics have with their hallucinations, feminization, language disturbances, and how Imaginary relations predominates(rivalry, aggression, jealousy) due to the inability of the psychotic to be introduced to the Symbolic order due to the foreclosure of the 'Paternal metaphor'.

I have alloted a lot of time in this book for the past few days. In times where I get the interest to read another book, I spend a few minutes reading Sean Homer's Jacques Lacan, which, also an introductory book it's different in the sense that it tries to isolates Lacan's key ideas, providing each with a short enumeration of the influences that helped developed each ideas, and how it influenced other fields of studies (which is mostly literature and humanities)