Books like The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique

I'm not quite as blown away as I was with Seminar no.3 on the Psychoses, but, as always, Lacan is a pleasure to read, if not a little frustrating/demanding. This is earlier in his career when he's more interested in the symbolic register's situation over and against the real and the imaginary (as opposed to his later work which is trendier among humanities' students, wherein the real as impossible or as lack is emphasized against the imaginary and the symbolic orders)--for that reason it gives a clear if rudimentary account of the symbolic.And again, as with The Psychoses, this course begins at a slow crawl; the first forty pages or so seem to wander in all directions (dry, disparate, needless directions). But Lacan is a tailor of a pedagogue: he promises to piece together any loose threads and he delivers. The occasional explosive spurts of enrapture are worth the dry spells. Good read.