The Jacques Lacan Foundation

"Laugh-out-loud funny ... a wonderfully absurd plot ... a wild ride, wearing its intelligence lightly while still performing a detailed critique of a world where politics, capitalism and image-making are almost indistinguishable." Peter Salmon, Prospect Magazine ---------- "Knowing and playful, fresh and funny, The Jacques Lacan Foundation is both an affectionate satire and a wily celebration of bibliophilia, intellectual glamour, and the institutionalised life of the mind." Rob Doyle ---------- "The Jacques Lacan Foundation is perfectly mordant ... I love how this gorgeous, raucous novel delights in ruffling anyone's - including its own - desire to be 'an authentic something'." Daisy Lafarge ---------- "Sick! In the best way." Stephanie LaCava ---------- "The Jacques Lacan Foundation is highly recommended. Imagine a working-class Fleabag astray in Malcolm Bradbury's Mensonge. But in hipsterland Texas!" Andrew Gallix ----------"The Jacques Lacan Foundation is linguistically Nabakovian, it's got Babitz eque charm, it's experimental, it's satirical, it's fucking hilarious ... destined to become a cult classic." Book Talk ---------- "Absolute and unremitting irony ... ice-cube cold." Times Literary Supplement ---------- "The incredible sustained moire effect carried off with such aplomb in Susan Finlay's The Jacques Lacan Foundation - really enjoying." Tony White ----------"Susan Finlay's talents as storyteller, freewheeling theorist and popular culture expert blossom in the novel ... A vindication of humour and style over theoretical solemnity, an assertion of a dynamic and necessary engagement with ideas from abroad, and a priceless guide in how to conduct oneself with poise and panache." Tribune ----------"A fun exterior but a clever punch from the inside ... an unforgettable experience." The Bobsphere ---------- "The Jacques Lacan Foundation pulls off trick after impressive trick, not least in its ability to be both a virtuosic exercise in irony and a searching examination of the twin institutions-psychoanalysis and academic-at its core. I loved it." Helen Charman ---------- "Brilliant. Bad puns abound in this hilarious yet affectionate pastiche of transatlantic Lacanians." Isabel Miller ---------- "This joyful satire is so much fun, Just gulped it down." Clare Pollard ---------- A South London Gallery Summer Book Choice ---------- "A Book of the year 2022" The White Review ---------- “A favourite book of 2022” Anti-Capitalist Resistance