Elephants in a Sugarcane Field leans on two thinkers, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek, to come to terms with questions that confound us. How does a grand temple uphold the fantasy that nothing is wrong with our social reality? Why are sexually abusive terms directed at mothers and sisters so universal? What does language hide and reveal at once? Is nirvana real? How does God fill the emptiness in us? Do psychoanalysis and Vipassana converge? Does ideology govern human life like gravity governs the universe? What is the void?