Against Adaptation Lacan's Subversion of the Subject

, by VAN HAUTE, PHILIPPE

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Copyright: 11/17/2001

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"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement." -William Richardson

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview	p. xxi
Introduction: Freud's Copernican Revolution	p. xxvii
The Primacy of the Symbolic and the Unconcious	p. 1
Freud and Lacan on the Unconscious and Language	p. 3
A Few General Remarks on Lacan's Theory of Language	p. 7
The Elementary Cell of the Graph of Desire: The Symbolic and the Real	p. 20
The Body, Language, and the Unconscious	p. 27
The Subject of the Unconscious	p. 35
The Subject of the Enunciation and the Subject of the Statement	p. 37
The Subversion of the Subject	p. 42
The Subject as Discontinuity in the Real	p. 46
Wo Es war, soll Ich werden	p. 52
From the First to the Second Version of the Graph of Desire	p. 59
Introduction	p. 61
The Other in the Second Version of the Graph of Desire	p. 62
The Subject and the Other	p. 70
The Other as "Witness"	p. 75
The Symbolic and the Imaginary	p. 79
The Imaginary: General Remarks	p. 81
The Ideal Ego and the Ego-Ideal	p. 89
Language, the Unconscious, and Desire	p. 101
Introduction	p. 103
Beyond Need and Demand: Desire	p. 104
Desire and the Law: The Dialectic of Desire	p. 112
Further Characterization of Desire: The Transitional Object	p. 119
The Unconscious Is the Discourse of the Other	p. 123
The Metapsychological Significance of the Phantasy and of the Object a	p. 127
The Third Version of the Graph of Desire	p. 129
The Significance of the Phantasy	p. 133
The Significance of the Object a	p. 140
The Object a and Lacan's Critique of the Psychoanalytic Tradition	p. 152
The Phantasy, the Object a, and Subjectivity: The Essentially Bodily Significance of Lack	p. 158
The Truth of the Unconscious: S(O), the Castration Complex, and the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father	p. 163
The Final Version of the Graph	p. 165
The Significance of S(O)	p. 170
The Castration Complex in Freud	p. 177
The Imaginary Phallus	p. 180
The Father as Symbolic Third	p. 188
The Symbolic Father Is the "Dead" Father: Totem and Taboo	p. 191
The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father	p. 199
The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father and Symbolic Castration	p. 202
The Primacy of the Phallus, Sexuality, and the Unconscious	p. 207
The Phallus, Castration, and the Problem of Sexuation	p. 211
The Impossible Jouissance: Elements of a Structural Psychopathology	p. 217
Introduction: The Jouissance of the Other and Pathology	p. 219
The Jouissance of the Other, the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father, and Psychosis	p. 228
The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex	p. 233
Perversion	p. 238
Phobia	p. 246
Neurosis: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis	p. 247
Jouissance, the Law, and the Pleasure Principle	p. 271
Ne pas ceder sur son desir: Towards a Dialectic of Desire?	p. 278
Conclusion: The Primacy of Sexuality, or Against Adaptation	p. 283
References	p. 297
Index	p. 305
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Against Adaptation Lacan's Subversion of the Subject

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