Écrits: The First Complete Translation in English

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Translator's Note......Page 12
Abbreviations Used in the Text......Page 15
I......Page 18
1	Overture to this Collection......Page 20
2	Seminar on "The Purloined Letter"......Page 23
II......Page 66
3	On My Antecedents......Page 68
4	Beyond the "Reality Principle"......Page 75
5	The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience......Page 92
6	Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis......Page 99
7	A Theoretical Introduction to the Functions of Psychoanalysis in Criminology......Page 119
8	Presentation on Psychical Causality......Page 140
III......Page 176
9	Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty......Page 178
10	Presentation on Transference......Page 193
IV......Page 204
11	On the Subject Who Is Finally in Question......Page 206
12	The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis......Page 214
13	Variations on the Standard Treatment......Page 286
14	On a Purpose......Page 320
15	Introduction to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's "Verneinung"......Page 325
16	Response to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's "Verneinung"......Page 335
17	The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis......Page 351
18	Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching......Page 381
19	The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956......Page 401
20	The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud......Page 429
V......Page 460
21	On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis......Page 462
22	The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power......Page 506
23	Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation: "Psychoanalysis and Personality Structure"......Page 560
24	The Signification of the Phallus......Page 592
25	In Memory of Ernest Jones: On His Theory of Symbolism......Page 602
26	On an Ex Post Facto Syllabary......Page 619
27	Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Feminine Sexuality......Page 627
VI......Page 638
28	The Youth of Gide, or the Letter and Desire......Page 640
29	Kant with Sade......Page 662
VII......Page 686
30	The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious......Page 688
31	Position of the Unconscious......Page 720
32	On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire......Page 739
33	Science and Truth......Page 743
APPENDIX I: A Spoken Commentary on Freud's "Verneinung" by Jean Hyppolite......Page 763
APPENDIX II: Metaphor of the Subject......Page 772
Translator's Endnotes......Page 776
Classified Index of the Major Concepts......Page 868
Commentary on the Graphs......Page 875
Bibliographical References in Chronological Order......Page 881
Index of Freud's German Terms......Page 886
Index of Proper Names......Page 888
jouissance......Page 703
jouissance......Page 717
Jouissance......Page 778