Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Lacan's Écrits Revisited: On Writing as Object of Desire
	Notes
Chapter 2: What Are Words Worth? Lacan and the Circulation of Money in the Psychoanalytic Economy
	Notes
Chapter 3: That Obscure Object of Psychoanalysis
	Objectivity and Subjectivity
	Freud's Ego-subject
	Lacan's Object a
	Alienation and Separation
	The Potentiality of Being
	Notes
Chapter 4: The Sculptural Iconography of Feminine Jouissance: Lacan's Reading of Bernini's Saint Teresa in Ecstasy
	Ecstasy in the Chapel
	A Certain Look
	Knowledge of Jouissance
	The Saint and the Sphinx
	Notes
Chapter 5: Esprit de Corps, Work Transference, and Dissolution: Lacan as an Organizational Theorist
	Introduction
	Esprit de Corps
	Work Transference
	Dissolution
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis as Gai Saber: Towards a New Episteme of Laughter
	Encounter with a Fantasist
	Jacques Lacan Is Gay!
	Gay Psychoanalysis
	The Episteme of Laughter
	Notes
Chapter 7: Once He Was a Poet: On Psychoanalysis as Poetry in Lacan's Clinical Paradigm
	Introduction
	Lacan's New Signifier
	A Born Poem
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 8: Lacan's Clinical Artistry: On Sublimation, Sublation, and the Sublime
	Introduction
	First Tension: Sublimation as Creative Destruction
	Second Tension: The Sublime and Psychoanalytic Creativity
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 9: Lacan with Antigone: On Tragedy and Desire in the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
	Introduction
	Background and Context
	The Cathartic Effect of Antigone's Brilliance
	Beyond Desire and What Antigone Found There
	Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index