Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoanalysisJacques Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based," namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression. This book constitutes the essence of Dr. Lacan's sensibility. |
Contents
Excommunication | 1 |
THE UNCONSCIOUS AND REPETITION | 15 |
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours | 17 |
of the Subject of Certainty | 29 |
of the Network of Signifiers | 42 |
Tuché and Automaton | 53 |
OF THE GAZE AS Objet Petit | 65 |
The Split between the Eye and the Gaze | 67 |
Sexuality in the Defiles of the Signifier | 149 |
The Deconstruction of the Drive | 161 |
The Partial Drive and its Circuit | 174 |
From Love to the Libido | 187 |
THE FIELD OF THE OTHER | 188 |
AND BACK TO THE TRANSFERENCE | 201 |
Alienation | 203 |
Aphanisis | 216 |
Anamorphosis | 79 |
The Line and Light | 91 |
What is a Picture? | 105 |
THE TRANSFERENCE AND THE DRIVE | 121 |
Presence of the Analyst | 123 |
Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious | 136 |
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan No preview available - 1988 |
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