Trying to read Lacan again

I'm making another go of it with Lacan. I've become loosely familiar with the name from a variety of surrogates and followers: I've read some Zizek, Kittler, Dolar, and Butler. But my direct experience with Lacan is limited to browsing through my Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Basically, I've decided that I can no longer trust these surrogates and I have to go directly to the source. So Ecrits is lying open on my coffeetable right now.

Why bother with this project? I could very easily go through my entire AM-STUD career without touching the Ecrits or the Seminars. Well, I think theory is important for generating frames through which we can understand the world as it is and critique it in order to fashion a different world. When I was an undergraduate, though, I tended to look at problems from an anthropological perspective, which has cultivated in me a healthy distrust of psychoanalytic theory.

Now I feel that:

IF you're committed to some kind of concept of social construction, THEN you need a bit of psychoanalytic theory.

So this project is ultimately about adding detail to the above statement.