A comprehensive examination of Lacan's seminar on ethics.
Introduction
p. 1
A Theory of the Subject
p. 11
The Object Relations Theory and Its Moral Premises
p. 13
Lacan's Target: Maurice Bouvet
p. 16
Lacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the Subject
p. 20
Ethics and Phantasm
p. 34
Introducing a Real Object
p. 38
Crucial Problems
p. 47
One Ethical Demand versus Another
p. 48
A New Form of Guilt?
p. 52
A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?
p. 54
Aristotle Revisited
p. 57
The Interval between Aristotle and Freud
p. 57
Aristotle and Freud against Bentham
p. 66
Pleasure, Reality, and Logos
p. 72
An Intimately Distant "Thing"
p. 83
"Das Ding"
p. 84
A Matter of Distance
p. 90
How Much Does a Thing Weigh?
p. 98
A Critique of Pure Practical Reason
p. 105
Kant's Critique of Morals
p. 107
Lacan and the Critique of Practical Reason
p. 109
The Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"
p. 113
The Weight of Enjoyment
p. 121
Pleasure
p. 121
Sade
p. 131
The Commandment to Love Your Neighbor
p. 140
An Ethics of Singularity
p. 152
Sublimation
p. 163
From Doom to Dame
p. 163
An "Object Relational" Concept of Sublimation
p. 167
Courtly Love
p. 175
Culture as Sublimation
p. 183
Sublimation and Ethics
p. 190
Radiant Antigone
p. 205
An Anamorphic Glance at Tragedy
p. 205
The Subject in the Picture
p. 212
Desire in the Picture
p. 225
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
p. 249
The Analytic Toll
p. 250
Measure without Measure
p. 256
Epilogue
p. 269
Notes
p. 275
Abbreviations
p. 327
Bibliography
p. 329
Index
p. 341
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