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In his introduction to Lacan Today: Psychoanalysis, Science, Religion, Alexandre Leupin states that “this is not a book about applied psychoanalysis by a practicing psychoanalyst or even by somebody who has been analyzed.” While he hopes that “practicing psychoanalysts will find echoes of their cases” (p. xxxvi) within these pages, his primary objective is to offer the English-speaking public a view of Lacan that has never been made available to them before this. He feels that “Lacan is the only twentieth-century thinker who has drawn the consequences of Freud's discovery to their ultimate limits” and, at the risk of hyperbole, he even goes on to declare that “Lacan's radical reevaluation of human thinking is comparable to Einstein's” (p. xiii). Alexandre Leupin is Gregorie Professor in French at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he teaches French literature, art, epistemology and psychoanalysis. In teaching Lacan to graduate students for many years he has discovered that “what works is a structural apprehension of Lacan's concepts, that is their insertion in a general coherence which (he supposes) to be at work in the corpus in its entirety” (p. xxiv). In Lacan Today, Leupin presents the fruits of his labor. He combines his classroom experience with years of pondering over Lacanian texts (many of them