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Lacan isn't an easy read. If you're interested in learning about Lacan's ideas, it's probably a much better idea to start with something like Zizek's How to Read Lacan, which will give you the concepts without Lacan's sadistic writing style.

But, I find something compelling with Lacan's writing, infuriating as it is. Lacan spent a lot of time writing about the disparity between what we perceive as reality or knowledge and what is "actually" there (or, perhaps more accurately, the way language limits our understanding), and as I sat there, reading and re-reading (and re-reading) each passage, I became increasingly frustrated by the text. Why was this so hard? These were just words in a language I've been speaking for as long as I've been speaking in a language, so there was no reason it should be so hard. And then it occurred to me that I was experiencing the exact kind of disparity between understanding and perception that Lacan was describing (kind of like the organic reading experience Mark Z. Danielewski creates with his excellent House of Leaves. It was a rough lesson, but one that I was ultimately glad to have.