About the book: year / © Slavoj Žižek/ Looking Awry, 1991. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. In the book, the author sets himself the task of reading “the most sophisticated theoretical constructions of Jacques Lacan in parallel with and through examples of modern mass culture,” and in this regard touches on some of the problems of the detective story. In particular, he draws a parallel between the psychoanalytic procedure and the investigation of a crime in a detective story. Somewhat confusing, but interesting nonetheless. "Freud's most famous patient, the 'Wolf Man,' recalls that Freud regularly and carefully read the stories of Sherlock Holmes - not for amusement, but precisely because of the parallel between the detective's and the analyst's retrospection." "In the beginning there is murder - traumatic shock , an event that cannot be integrated into symbolic reality, because it violates the “normal” cause-and-effect relationship. From the moment of his invasion, even the most mundane events of life seem full of threatening possibilities; Everyday reality becomes a nightmare because the 'normal' relationship between cause and effect is abolished." Warning: This work contains plots from the stories "The Speckled Band" and "The Red-Headed Band" by A. Conan Doyle, the novel "The ABCs of Murder" by A. Christie, the story "The Highgate Miracle" by Adrian Conan Doyle and J.D. Carr, and the story by R. Chandler "Red Wind" © N. Volsky.