I wonder if folks would have a better time with Freud than Lacan. Lacan is not a settled matter among clinical psychoanalysts, in fact I reckon the majority of them aren’t so fond of him. I would think of Lacanian psychoanalysis as a distinctive strain of thought, different from Freudian, kleinian, etc. psychoanalysis is hard to understand, but some of it is a fair bit easier than Lacan.

Which is not to say that Lacan is the future modality held back by conservative/regressive institutions, though he may be.