Well formulated, brief and quite inclusive. A good reference book for any Lacan reader and has no equivalent in the market as such. But one wishes if it could have been more comphrehensive and detailed. But as the name suggest it is just intended to be introductiory.
Just what we all need - a dictionary to help us move toward a better understanding of an often misunderstood thinker. I've seen a number of philosopher-specific dictionaries with varying degrees of success. The Deleuze Dictionary is one of the best, the Derrida Dictionary is not so hot, but this title is right up at the top. I would include it with Bruce Fink's "The Lacanian Subject" as the two essential secondary sources available in English on Lacan.While the Lacanian Subject is more of a book to read cov..
Dylan Evans, a Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Brunel and an analysist in private practice in London has written a very helpful dictionary of Lacanian terms and terminology. The Dictionary has both short and more lengthy entries, with the more complicated terms such as the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary, the Other, the Mirror Stage, etc., each meriting longer essays of up to two pages. My interest in Lacan is presently primarily in terms of literary theory but the book is per..