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 -- .
