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
