Five Lessons
Translators' Introduction
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Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan
Prefatory Remarks
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First Lesson: The Unconscious and Jouissance
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First Principle: "The unconscious is structured like a language"
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Second Principle: "There is no sexual relation"
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Second Lesson: The Existence of the Unconscious
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When can the unconscious be said to exist?
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The unconscious manifests itself in "lalangue"
The unconscious is a structure that actualizes itself
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The unconscious is the displacement of the signifier between the patient and the analyst
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The subject of the unconscious
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Third Lesson: The Concept of Object a
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The therapeutic goal of psychoanalysis
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The problem of the other
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The formal status of object a
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The "corporal" status of object a
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The breast as object a
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Summary on object a: the need-demand-desire triad
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Fourth Lesson: Fantasy
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That which is proper to psychoanalysis
97
Clinical observations on fantasy
99
The body as a core of jouissance Fifth Lesson: The Body
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Sexual, symbolic, and imaginary body
117
Partial body and jouissance
120
A clinical vignette
123
Formations of object a
129
Appendix: The Concept of the Subject of the Unconscious
133
Translated by Boris Belay
The relation of the subject to unconscious knowledge
133
The relation of the subject to logic
139
The relation of the subject to castration
140
The layered subject of the unconscious
143
The concept of unconscious knowledge
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