The other side of desire: Lacan's theory of the registers

This work makes the techniques of Lacanian analysis accessible to a wide variety of readers by putting his theoretical constructs to work on texts as varied as Plato's "Symposium" and the journals of Sylvia Plath. The author re-reads Lacan's most significant essays on subjects such as aggressivity and the mirror stage and shows his pivotal role in the intellectual transition from the post-structuralism of the twentieth century to the post-humanism of the twenty-first. 205 pages.