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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1 THE LOGIC OF DESIRE 1. Being the desire of the other. 2. The concept of desire in Freud. 3. The ?satisfaction experience.? 4. To find again. 5. The desire of the Other?s desire. 6. Human desire is instated. 7. Some specifications: (a) Desire is unconscious and mute (b) Unconscious desire is sexual (c) Desire is impossible to satisfy. 8. Need, demand, and desire. 9. Object (a) as the object-cause of desire. 10. The dialectic of the lack. Chapter 2 THE LOGIC OF THE SIGNIFIER 1. Saussure, Jakobson and Lacan (a) The two axes 2. Lacan?s thesis. 3. The signifying chain. 4. Meaning, truth, and signification. 5. The series of signifiers. 6. Metaphor. 7. Metonymy (a) Freud and metonymy. 8. What is a signifier: (a) The sign (b) The supremacy of the signifier 9. The origin of the signifier: (a) The first signifier. 10. The symbolic order and the letter. Chapter 3 THE THREE ORDERS (RSI) AND THE BORROMEAN PROPOSITION 1. Topology and the three orders. 2. The Imaginary Order (a) Semblance. 3. The Symbolic Order. 4. The Order of the Real, (a) The Real and reality (b) The Real. 5. The Borromean knot and topology: (a) The Borromean Function (b) The Borromean becomes more complex (c) The Borromean function and the three orders. 6. The Borromean graph. Chapter 4 THE LOGIC OF ANXIETY 1. What is anxiety? 2. Anxiety as loss in Freud. 3. Basic types of anxiety: (a) Annihilation Anxiety. (b) Separation Anxiety. (c) Castration Anxiety. 4. Anxiety and its position in the structure. 5. ?Presence in excess? and ?the lack of the lack.? 6. Anxiety and the ?present absence.? 7. Anxiety and object (a). Chapter 5 THE LOGIC OF THE PHALLUS 1. The meaning of the phallus. 2. The phallic signifier. 3. The Logic of the phallus. 4. To be the phallus of the Other. 5. The relationship between the sexes. 6. The phallus and the mask of appearance. Chapter 6 THE LOGIC OF THE OBJECT 1. The two-faced object. 2. The Object of the drive. 3. Freud and his objects. 4. Object cathexis. 5. Part-object. 6. The Splitting of the object. 7. The Anaclitic object. 8. The Love object. 9. Melanie Klein and her objects. 10. The controversy on the total object. 11. Winnicott and his transitional object. 12. Lacan and his objects. 13. Object (a). 14. The absent object. 15. Chart of the lack of the object. Chapter 7 THE LOGIC OF THE SUBJECT 1. The Subject of the unconscious. 2. The Effect of the word. 3. Statement (enoncé) and enunciation. 4. Zero and the subject. 5. The Subject and desire. 6. The Subject and anxiety. 7. The Subject in the cut. 8. The Subject and knowledge. 9. The Fading of the subject. 10. The Subject and the Other. 11. The Subject and the Borromean function. 12. The Subject and the hole: (a) First hole (b) Second hole. Chapter 8 THE LOGIC OF THE OTHER 1. The Symbolic Other. 2. The little other. 3. The lacking other. 4. The absent other.5. The Big Other. 6. Schema Lambda. Chapter 9 THE LOGIC OF OBJET (a) 1. A remainder. 2. The éclats or fragments. 3. The Topological object. 4. A further specification: (a) Object (a) and the partial drive (b) The Semblance (c) The remainder (d) The object of the lack (e) The object of desire (f) The object and plus-de-jouir 5. Love and Object (a). 6. The Sexual act and Object (a). 7. Object (a) and Anxiety. 8 Object (a) and the analyst. Chapter 10 THE LOGIC OF JOUISANCE 1. Psychic suffering. 2. The Logic of Jouissance. 3. Another issue regarding Jouissance: (a) Phallic Jouissance (b) Feminine Jouissance (c) Absolute Jouissance (d) Mystic Jouissance. (4) The State of Jouissance and moral masochism. 5. Is Jouissance a symptom? 6. Relief of the state of Jouissance. 7. Pleasure and Jouissance. 8. Jouissance and the psychic structure. Chapter 11 THE LOGIC OF THE CAUSE 1. Complemental series: (a) Psychic trauma (b) Psychic Conflict (c) Psychic deficiency (deficit and others structural lacks). 2. The Logic of Trauma: (a) what is Psychic Trauma? (b) Trauma and the fantasme (c) Trauma and the Real. 3. The Logic of Conflict: (a) what is psychic conflict? (b) Conflict, anxiety, and the Real. 4. The Logic of the psychic Defect: (a) what is a structural defect? (b) Structural Invariants (c) Constitutive variants. 4. The Cause and the (RSI). Chapter 12 THE LOGIC OF THE SYMPTOM 1. What is a symptom? 2. The Symptom as signifier. 3. The Symptom and (RSI). 4. The Symptom is ?what doesn?t work in the Real? (a) The Symptom as opaque. 5. First matheme of the symptom (a) Symptom and semblance. 6. Second matheme of the symptom. 7. Instating the symptom. 8. Clinical Symptom and analytic symptom. 9. Logical sequences of the symptom: (a) The moment of demand (b) The moment of instatement of the symptom (c) The moment of the analytic effect 10. Time and the symptom. 11. The fate of the symptom: (a) Symptom substitution (b) The symptom-clamp. 12. The Logic of the Sinthome: (a) James Joyce and the sinthome 13. The Symptom as prosthesis and the ?symptom-clamp? theory. Chapter 13 THE LOGIC OF THE FANTASME 1. What is the Fantasme? (a) The sexual scene. 2. The Construction of the fantasme. 3. Matheme of the fantasme. 4. Symptom and fantasme. 5. Traversing the fantasme. Chapter 14 THE LOGIC OF THE SYMPTASME 1. The Fundamental fantasme. 2. The Construction of symptasme. 3. The Symptasme and the Real. 4. First matheme of the symptasme. 5. Second matheme of the symptasme. 6. The Symptasme and the ?unary trait.? Chapter 15 THE LOGIC OF HYSTERIA 1. According to the logic of the phallus. 2. The Phenomenology of Hysteria. 3. Matheme of Hysteria. 4. A Modification to Lacan?s original matheme. 5. The Meaning of the matheme. 6. Clinical application of the matheme of the hysteric. 7. Two types of hysteria: (N/o) and (n/O). 8. Hysterical Madness: (a) The other as master and hysterical psychosis (b) Dissociative crisis. Chapter 16 THE LOGIC OF PHOBIAS 1. Phobias in Clinical practice. 2. Phobias of the narcissistic (imaginary) axis (N/o). 3. Phobias of the Oedipal (symbolic) axis (n/E). 4. The Construction of a symbolic phobic object. 4. Curable and incurable phobias. Chapter 17 THE LOGIC OF OBSESSIONS 1. Hysterization Phenomena. 2. The Phenomenology of Obsessive neurosis: (a) Obsessive ideas (b) Cabalistic ideas (c) Obsessive doubts (d) Compulsive rituals (e) Obsessive control (f) Feelings of guilt (g) Sexual activity (h) The obsessive and death. 3. The Structure of obsessive neurosis. 4. The Matheme of obsessive neurosis. 5. Meaning of the matheme. 6. Clinical application of the matheme of obsessive neurosis. Chapter 18 THE LOGIC OF DEPRESSION 1. Is it a structure or symptom? (a) Depression as a symptom (b) The difference. 2. Bereavement and mourning: (a) The Work of mourning, (b) Necessary losses (c) Pathological mourning. 3. Clinical manifestations of emptiness or the internal void: (a) Internal void, (b) The Logic of emptiness and the structural hole. 4. Moral masochism: (a) Masochism and guilt, (b) Masochism and self-esteem. 5. Symptomatology of Jouissance: (a) The Need to suffer, (b) The Sum of Jouissance, (c) Unavoidable Jouissance. 6. Depressive states: (a) On the logic of hate toward the object (b) Self-Hate (c) The subjective experience of Failure (d) Despair and hopelessness. 7. Depression and the suicidal act: (a) Suicide as symptom (b) The Radical and heroic suicidal Act. Chapter 19 THE LOGIC OF THE SUICIDAL ACT 1. The Ethics of the suicidal act. 2. Two vertices. (a) Acting out (b) Passage to the act (enactment). 3. The Suicidal act as symptom. 4. The Dialectic of hope. 5. To be loved by the other. 6. The concept of the death drive. 7. Hate toward the object. 8. Imaginary castration. 9. The triggering factor. 10. An entanglement of scenarios and fictions. 11. The push toward suicide as symptom. 12. What to do with a subject at risk of committing suicide? 13. In the face of an imminent suicidal act. 14. The Radical and heroic suicidal act. 15. The Logic of the radical suicide?s death. 16. The Pure heroic suicide. 17. Heroic act and fundamentalist act. 18. Mass suicides. 19. Masada. Chapter 20 THE LOGIC OF BORDERLINE STATES 1. The Dimension of their specificity. 2. The problem with the borderline paradigm. 3. Inner emptiness: the hole. 4. The demand for Recognition and the need for affirmation. 5. Object relations. 6. The discourse of domination. 7. The second skin. 8. Adhesive or parasitic states. 9. Sexual life. 10. System of ideals. 11. ?Reversal of perspective.? 12. Impulse Control. 13. Compulsions and addictions. Chapter 21 THE LOGIC OF PSYCHOSES 1. Differential diagnosis. 2. Preamble to the Borderline dysfunction. 3. The Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. 4. The R Graph. 5. The affirmation or ?Bejahung.? 6. Elementary phenomena: (a) The Push toward the other sex (b) The absence of shifters (c) The other as Master (discourse of domination) (d) Genitality without a subject (e) The Sea of Jouissance. (f) Ambiguity in sexual object-choice. 7. Psychotic production. 8. Outside of discourse. 9. Two types of supplements. 10. The triggering of the Psychotic breakdown: (a) Intolerance to rejection (b) Occupying the locus of the father (c) The direction of the cure. Chapter 22 THE LOGIC OF PERVERSIONS 1. The Psychoanalytic viewpoint. 2. What is a perverse act? 3. The Vertex of phenomenological clinical description: (a) neurotic structure (b) perverse structure. 4. The Vertex of psychoanalytic clinical practice 5. The meaning of the perverse act in the perversions. 6. A street exhibitionist. 7. A celebrated masochist. 8. A true masochist. 9. The meaning of the perverse act in neuroses. 10. The fantasme. 11. The Inclusion of the fantasme. 12. The fantasme in act. 13. Two brief examples. 14. Access to the fantasme. Chapter 23 THE LOGIC OF PERVERSE STRUCTURES 1. Step by step. 2. The Graph of perversion. 3. Verleugnung. 4. Ichspaltung. 5. To be the phallus. 6. To be the instrument of Jouissance. 7. The Will-to-Jouissance (volonté-de-jouissance) 8. The Tyranny of the script. 9. The Perverse subject as an exemplary citizen. 10. Masculine men only. Chapter 24 THE LOGIC OF THE TRANSFERENCE 1. The transference effect. 2. The establishment of the transference. 3. Transference and specificity in psychoanalysis. 4. Transference as repetition. 5. Transference as resistance. 6. The Banalization of transference. Chapter 25 THE LOGIC OF THE TRANSFERENCE STRUCTURE 1. The Symbolic vertex of the transference. 2. Algorithm of the transference. 3. More about the symbolic vertex. 4. The ?Wall of language.? 5. Speaking to the wall 6. ?Empty speech? and ?full speech.? 7. Wo Es war, soll Ich werden. 8. The Imaginary vertex of the transference. 9. Second algorithm of the transference. 10. The vertex of the Real in the transference. 11. Transference hate. 12. Transference love. 13. The Logic of countertransference. 14. The effect of the Transference in the analyst. 15. The analyst?s transference. 16. The analyst as waste (des-echo). 17. Traversing the fantasme and the end of analysis. 18. Summary. Chapter 26 THE LOGIC OF NEGATIVE TRANSFERENCE 1. Negative transference: resistance or analytic impasse? 2. The following session. 3. Some Notes on the analysand?s history. 4. Main complaint and the establishment of the transference. 5. A qualified listener. 6. The Tyranny of the phallic other. 7. Suspended attention. 8. The problem of bisexuality. 9. The Master?s discourse. 10. Why is this Tyrannical bond established? 11. Transference with a phallic semblance. Chapter 27 THE TRANSFERENCE GRAPH 1. Introduction to the graph: Two sides and four levels. 2. Presentation of the Graph. 3. First level: The imaginary order and the locus of the analyst. (a) A knowledge attributed to the other (b) A Privileged listener ? the locus of the analyst. 3. Second level: The symbolic order and the locus of the analyst. (a) The Signifier of the (castrated) Other (b) Transference cure. 4. Third level: Borromean logic and resignification (a) Unconscious Resignification (b) Dismissal of the phallic other. 5. Fourth level: End of analysis and the question of ?being.? Post-analytic effect. Chapter 28 THE LOGIC OF THE ANALYTIC ACT (I) 1. A call to the knowledge in the other. 2. The establishment of the analytic device. 3. Becoming waste (des-echo). 4. The locus of the analyst. 5. The non-symbolized elements in the transference. 6. The Use and misuse of transference interpretation. 7. The position of the analyst. 8. Saying the unexpected. 9. When the analyst knows too much. 10. Who is an analyst? 11. An Analyst is the one who acts according to an ethics. 12. The ethics of psychoanalysis refers to something else. 13. What is it then that defines Psychoanalysis? Chapter 29 THE LOGIC OF THE ANALYTIC ACT (II) 1. The horror of the act. 2. The Direction of the analysis. 3. The limits of the act. 4. An untenable act. 5. The pedagogic act. 6. The orthopedic act. 7. The power of the transference. 8. The Analyst in act. 9. The analyst and his or her desire. 10. The analyst in symmetry with his or her analysand. 11. Ethics and the analytic setting 12. Ethics of Psychoanalysis. 13. The analyst and his or her word ? a summary. Chapter 30 THE LOGIC OF SPECIFICITY 1. What defines Psychoanalysis? 2. When can we say that a session is actually an analytic session? 3. Mode of listening. 4. The singularity of the analyst?s speech. Chapter 31 THE LOGIC OF SUPERVISION 1. Teaching or discovering? 2. The Problem of the training model. 3. Analysenkontrolle and Kontrollanalyse. 4. Approaches within the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). 5. A clinical vignette. 6. Supervision and resistance.
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-.
Psychoanalysis.