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Lacanian Subject Between Language and Jouissance

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ISBN-10: 0691015899

ISBN-13: 9780691015897

Edition: 1995

Authors: Bruce Fink

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This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this world. Lucidly guiding readers through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory--unpacking such central notions as the Other, objecta, the unconscious as structures like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Bruce Fink,nbsp;today's premier translator of Lacan, is winner of a Translation Prize from the French-American Foundation for his translation of Lacan's Ecrits. He is a professor of psychology at Duquesne University and lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Preface
Structure: Alienation and the Other
Language and Otherness
A Slip of the Other's Tongue
The Unconscious
Foreign Bodies
The Nature of Unconscious Thought, or How the Other Half "Thinks"
Heads or Tails
Randomness and Memory
The Unconscious Assembles
Knowledge without a Subject
The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real
Trauma
Interpretation Hits the Cause
Incompleteness of the Symbolic Order: The (W)hole in the Other
Kinks in the Symbolic Order
Structure versus Cause
The Lacanian Subject
The Lacanian Subject
The Lacanian Subject Is Not the "Individual" or Conscious Subject of Anglo-American Philosophy
The Lacanian Subject Is Not the Subject of the Statement
The Lacanian Subject Appears Nowhere in What Is Said
The Fleetingness of the Subject
The Freudian Subject
The Cartesian Subject and Its Inverse
Lacan's Split Subject
Beyond the Split Subject
The Subject and the Other's Desire
Alienation and Separation
The Vel of Alienation
Desire and Lack in Separation
The Introduction of a Third Term
Object a: The Other's Desire
A Further Separation: The Traversing of Fantasy
Subjectifying the Cause: A Temporal Conundrum
Alienation, Separation, and the Traversing of Fantasy in the Analytic Setting
Metaphor and the Precipitation of Subjectivity
The Signified
Two Faces of the Psychoanalytic Subject
The Subject as Signified
The Subject as Breach
The Lacanian Object: Love, Desire, Jouissance
Object (a): Cause of Desire
"Object Relations"
Imaginary Objects, Imaginary Relations
The Other as Object, Symbolic Relations
Real Objects, Encounters with the Real
Lost Objects
The Freudian Thing
Surplus Value, Surplus Jouissance
There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Castration
The Phallus and the Phallic Function
"There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship"
Distinguishing between the Sexes
The Formulas of Sexuation
A Dissymmetry of Partners
Woman[crossed off] Does Not Exist
Masculine/Feminine-Signifier/Signifierness
Other to Herself, Other Jouissance
The Truth of Psychoanalysis
Existence and Ex-sistence
A New Metaphor for Sexual Difference
The Status of Psychoanalytic Discourse
The Four Discourses
The Master's Discourse
The University Discourse
The Hysteric's Discourse
The Analyst's Discourse
The Social Situation of Psychoanalysis
There's No Such Thing as a Metalanguage
Psychoanalysis and Science
Science as Discourse
Suturing the Subject
Science, the Hysteric's Discourse, and Psychoanalytic Theory
The Three Registers and Differently "Polarized" Discourses
Formalization and the Transmissibility of Psychoanalysis
The Status of Psychoanalysis
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Afterword
The Language of the Unconscious
Stalking the Cause
Glossary of Lacanian Symbols
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index