The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor)

Overview

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy, and the tragic dimension of analytical experience. One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317761860
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	694 KB

About the Author

Jacques-Alain Miller

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Outline of the seminar; Part 1 Introduction to the Thing; Chapter 2 Pleasure and reality; Chapter 3 Rereading the Entwurf; Chapter 4 Das Ding; Chapter 5 Das Ding (II); Chapter 6 On the moral law; Part 2 The Problem of Sublimation; Chapter 7 Drives and lures; Chapter 8 The object and the thing; Chapter 9 On creation ex nihilo; Chapter 10 Marginal comments; Chapter 11 Courtly love as anamorphosis; Chapter 12 A critique of Bernfeld; Part 3 The Paradox of Jouissance; Chapter 13 The death of God; Chapter 14 Love of one’s neighbor; Chapter 15 The jouissance of transgression; Chapter 16 The death drive; Chapter 17 The function of the good; Chapter 18 The function of the beautiful; Part 4 The Essence of Tragedy; Chapter 19 The splendor of Antigone; Chapter 20 The articulations of the play; Chapter 21 Antigone between two deaths; Part 5 The Tragic Dimension of Psychoanalytic Experience; Chapter 22 The demand for happiness and the promise of analysis; Chapter 23 The moral goals of psychoanalysis; Chapter 24 The paradoxes of ethics or Have you acted in conformity with your desire?;