(P/B) READING SEMINARS I AND II

Παρουσίαση

In this collection of essays, Lacan's early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on his two earliest seminars: Freud's Papers on Technique and The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. These essays, by some of the finest analysts and writers in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world in Paris today, carefully lay out the background and development of Lacan's thought. In Part I, Jacques-Alain Miller spells out the philosophical and psychiatric origins of Lacan's work in great detail. In Parts II, III, and IV, Colette Soler, Eric Laurent, and others explain in the clearest of fashions the highly influential conceptualization Lacan introduces with the terms "symbolic," "imaginary," and "real." Part V provides the first sustained account in English to date of Lacan's reformulation of psychoanalytic diagnostic categories - neurosis, perversion, psychosis, and their subcategories - their theoretical foundations, and clinical applications (ample case material is provided here.)
Parts VI and VII of this collection take us well beyond Seminars I and II, relating Lacan's early work to his later views of the 1960s and 1970s. Slavoj Zizek explores the complex philosophical relations between Hegel and Lacan regarding the subject and the cause. And Lacan's article, "On Freud's 'Trieb' and the Psychoanalyst's Desire" - that appears here for the first time in English and is brilliantly unpacked by Jacques-Alain Miller in his "Commentary on Lacan's Text" - takes a giant step forward to 1965 where we see a crucial reversal in Lacan's perspective: desire is suddenly devalued, the defensive, inhibiting nature of desire coming to the fore. "What then becomes essential is the drive as an activity related to the lost object that produces jouissance." (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION (Jacques-Alain Miller)
An Introduction to Seminars I and II
Lacan's Orientation Prior to 1953 (I)
Lacan's Orientation Prior to 1953 (II)
Lacan's Orientation Prior to 1953 (III)
PART II: SYMBOLIC
The Symbolic Order I and II (Colette Soler)
Transference (Colette Soler)
Time and Interpretation (Colette Soler)
The Oedipus Complex (Eric Laurent)
The Subject and the Other's Desire (Bruce Fink)
Lacan and Levi-Strauss (Anne Dunand)
PART III: IMAGINARY
Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan (Francoise Koehler)
The Imaginary (Marie-Helene Brousse)
Language, Speech, and Discourse (Marie-Helene Brousse)
The Mirror of Manufactured Cultural Relations (Richard Feldstein)
PART IV: REAL
The Nature of Unconscious Thought or Why No One Ever Reads Lacan's Postface to the "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter" (Bruce Fink)
An Overview of the Real, with Examples from Seminar I (Ellie Ragland)
A Discussion of Lacan's "Kant with Sade" (Jacques-Alain Miller)
PART V: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES
An Introduction to Lacan's Clinical Perspectives (Jacques-Alain Miller)
Hysteria and Obsession (Colette Soler)
Clinical Vignette: A Case of Transsexualism (Francoise Gorog)
"Black Jacket": A Case of Transitory Fetishism (Claude Leger)
A Case of Childhood Perversion (Dominique Miller)
From Freud to Lacan: A Question of Technique (Robert Samuels)
On Perversion (Jacques-Alain Miller)
PART VI: OTHER TEXTS
"A Civilization of Hatred": The Other in the Imaginary (Maire Jaanus)
Logical Time and the Precipitation of Subjectivity (Bruce Fink)
The Ethics of Hysteria and of Psychoanalysis (Vicente Palomera)
Hegel with Lacan, or the Subject and Its Cause (Slavoj Zizek)
PART VII: TRANSLATION FROM LACAN'S ECRITS
On Freud's "Trieb " and the Psychoanalyst's Desire (Jacques Lacan)
Commentary on Lacan's Text (Jacques-Alain Miller)