Guide/Contents
Contents
- 1 Reference
- 2 The Uses of Philosophy
- 3 The Functions of Language
- 4 Lacan
- 5 The Imaginary
- 6 From the Imaginary to the Symbolic
- 7 The Symbolic
- 8 The Family and the Individual
- 9 The Oedipus Complex and the Meaning of the Phallus
- 10 From the Symbolic to the Real
- 11 The Subject of the Unconscious
- 12 The Real
- 13 Sexual Difference
- 14 Sexuality and Science
- 15 Lacan and Film
- 16 Lacan and Literature
- 17 After Lacan
Reference
The Uses of Philosophy
- Introduction
- Summary
The Functions of Language
- Introduction
- Summary
Lacan
- Introduction
- Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalyst and Teacher
- Summary
The Imaginary
- Introduction
- Context and Influences
- Phenomenology
- The Self as Mirror Image
- The Dialectic of Recognition and Desire
- The Mirror Stage
- The Mirror, the Screen and the Spectator
- Christian Metz's Critique of Baudry
- Laura Mulvey and Visual Pleasure
- Summary
From the Imaginary to the Symbolic
- Introduction
- Summary
The Symbolic
- Introduction
- The Primacy of the Signifier
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
- The Symbolic Order
- The Purloined Letter
- Summary
The Family and the Individual
- Introduction
- Summary
The Oedipus Complex and the Meaning of the Phallus
- Introduction
- The Oedipus Complex
- The Meaning of the Phallus
- The Law of the Father and the Superego
- The Two Fathers
- Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Imperative to Enjoyment!
- Summary
From the Symbolic to the Real
- Introduction
- Summary
The Subject of the Unconscious
- Introduction
- Formations of the Unconscious
- Alienation and Separation
- The Lacanian Subject
- The Drive
- Hamlet and the Tragedy of Desire
- Summary
The Real
- Das Ding (The Thing)
- Unconscious Fantasy
- Summary
Sexual Difference
- Introduction
- Freud and the Enigma of Feminine Sexuality
- To Have or to Be the Phallus?
- Femininity as Masquerade
- The Woman Does Not Exist
- Encore: The Theory of Sexuation
- There is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
- Courtly Love
- Summary
Sexuality and Science
- Introduction
- Summary
Lacan and Film
- Introduction
- Summary
Lacan and Literature
- Introduction
- Summary
After Lacan
- Introduction
- The Social-Ideological Fantasy
- Literary Theory
- Film as Fantasy
- Summary