The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

Author(s) : Bruce Fink

The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

Book Details

  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 248
  • Category :
    Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98221
  • ISBN 13 : 9780691272917
  • ISBN 10 : 0691272913

Table of Contents


Part I - Structure: Alienation and the Other
1. Language and Otherness
2. The Nature of Unconscious Thought, or How the Other Half 'Thinks'
3. The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real

Part II - The Lacanian Subject
4. The Lacanian Subject
5. The Subject and the Other's Desire
6. Metaphor and the Precipitation of Subjectivity

Part III - The Lacanian Object: Love, Desire, Jouissance
7. Object (a): Cause of Desire
8. There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship

Part IV - The Status of Psychoanalytic Discourse
9. The Four Discourses
10. Psychoanalysis and Science


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