The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

by Jacques Lacan, Jacques Alain Miller (Editor)

Overview

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 specialist audience than ever before, amongst 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. In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that, as he puts it, moves from "Is psycho-analysis a science?" to "What is a science that includes psycho-analysis?"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753570
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/23/2004
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lacan, Jacques

Table of Contents

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