The author's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less speci
Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Editor's Note --
Excommunication -- The Unconscious and Repetition -- The Freudian Unconscious
and Ours -- Of the Subject of Certainty -- Of the Network of Signifiers --
Tuché and Automaton -- Of The Gaze as Objet Petit a -- The Split between the
Eye and the Gaze -- Anamorphosis -- The Line and Light -- What is a Picture?
-- The Transference and the Drive -- Presence of the Analyst -- Analysis and
Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious -- Sexuality in the Defiles of the
Signifier -- The Deconstruction of the Drive -- The Partial Drive and its
Circuit -- From Love to the Libido -- The Field of the Other and back to the
Transference -- The Subject and the Other: Alienation -- The Subject and the
Other: Aphanisis -- Of the Subject Who is Supposed to Know, of the First
Dyad, and of the Good -- From Interpretation to the Transference -- To
Conclude -- In You More than You -- Translator's Note
Lacan, Jacques