Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Jacques Lacan’s seminars
Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture
	References
1 The Signification of the Phallus
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	References
2 In Memory of Ernest Jones: On His Theory of Symbolism
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 On an Ex Post Facto Syllabary
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	Notes
	References
4 Some Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
		“The Shine [Éclat] of Absences”: The ‘Object’ and ‘the Object Relation’
		Misrecognitions and biases: castration and phallic non-equivalence
		Frigidity and feminine subjective structure
		Female homosexuality and ideal love
		Female sexuality and society
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
5 The Youth of Gide, or the Letter and Desire
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 Kant with Sade
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
		Section 1
		Section 2
		Section 3
		Section 4
		Section 5
		Section 6
		Section 7
		Section 8
		Section 9
		Section 10
		Section 11
		Sections 12–13
		Section 14
		Section 15
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7 The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious
	Context
	Commentary on the text
		Analytical praxis
		Freud’s Copernican turn
		The split subject of the unconscious
		Drive and revolution
		The first graph of desire
		Circular retroactivity
		To feign feigning
		The second graph of desire
		Master and slave
		The defiles of the signifier
		Need, demand, desire
		From anxiety to desire
		Desire is the other’s desire
		Chè vuoi?
		The third graph of desire
		The subversion of the subject
		The complete graph of desire
		The subject as object of the drive
		From S(.) to jouissance…
		… and castration
		The psychopathological positions of the subject of the unconscious
		The inverse scale of the law of desire
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
8 Position of the Unconscious
	Context
		From the ‘Rome Discourse’ (1953) to ‘Position de l’inconscient’ (1966)
		The Bonneval Colloquium
	Commentaries on the text
		First section (703–712)
			The unfreudian Unconscious (703–708, 2)
		Subject and time (708, 3–709, 3)
		Teaching psychoanalysis against identification (709, 4–710, 7)
		“To confirm the function of this point of lack” (710, 8–711, 1)
		Topology of the Unconscious: “An entrance one can only reach just as it closes” (711, 2–711, 7)
		Temporality of the unconscious: ‘a circular, albeit nonreciprocal articulation’ (711, 8–712, 7)
		Second section. The causation of the subject: alienation (712, 8–714, 5)
		Third section. The causation of the subject: separation (714, 6–719, 6)
		Fourth section. Sexuality between the two sides of the gap (719, 7–721, 2)
		Fifth section. Leaving Bonneval (721, 3–6)
		Between Signifier and Drive: Position of the Unconscious
	Conclusion
		(1): The Unconscious as an ever-failing border process
		(2): Causality and determination
		(3): A circular but non-reciprocal dialectic
		(4): Science and psychoanalysis
	Notes
	References
9 On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	Notes
	References
10 Science and Truth
	Context
	Commentary on the text
	Concluding remarks
	References
11 Metaphor of the Subject
	Context
	Commentaries on the text
	Notes
	Acknowledgments
	References
Index