The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
- Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1981.
Description
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis is the English translation of one of the pivotal works of Jacques Lacan.
Translation of Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse' by Alan Sheridan.
This classic text probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and science and religion as well as defining the unconscious, the repetition, the transference, and the drive as the underlying concepts of psycho-analysis.
Back Cover
Jacques Lacan’s writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud.
This volume is based on a year’s seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work.
For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based", namely the unconscious, repetition, the transference and the drive.
Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression.
This book constitutes the essence of Lacan's sensibility.
Contents
1. Excommunication || 1 THE UNCONSCIOUS AND REPETITION 2. The Freudian Unconscious and Ours || 17 3. Of the Subject of Certainty || 29 4. Of the Network of Signifiers || 42 5. Tuche and Automaton || 53| Preface to the English-Language Edition | vii |
| Editor's Note | xi |
Of the Gaze As Objet Petit a 6. The Split between the Eye and the Gaze 67 7. Anamorphosis 79 8. The Line and Light 91 9. What is a Picture? 105
The Transference and the Drive 10. Presence of the Analyst 123 11. Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious 136 12. Sexualtiy in the Defiles of the Signifier 149 13. The Deconstruction of the Drive 161 14. The Partial Drive and its Circuit 174 15. From Love to the Libido 187
The Field of the Other and Back to the Transference 16. The Subject and the Other: Alienation 203 17. The Subject and the Other: Aphanisis 216 18. Of the Subject who is Supposed to Know, of the first Dyad and of the Good 230 19. From Interpretation to the Transference 244
To Conclude 20. In you more than you 263
Translator's Note 277 Index 283
