Against Adaptation
Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
1st Edition
Published on 4. December 2012
360 pages
978-1-59051-620-1 (ISBN)
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"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."
-William Richardson
-William Richardson
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Philippe Van Haute
Philippe Van Haute is a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Nijmegen. His books include Against Adaptation (Other Press, 2002) and Confusion of Tongues.
Philippe Van Haute is a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Nijmegen. His books include Against Adaptation (Other Press, 2002) and Confusion of Tongues.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview
- Introduction: Freud's Copernican Revolution
- Chapter 1: The Primacy of the Symbolic and the Unconcious
- Freud and Lacan on the Unconscious and Language
- A Few General Remarks on Lacan's Theory of Language
- The Elementary Cell of the Graph of Desire: The Symbolic and the Real
- The Body, Language, and the Unconscious
- Chapter 2: The Subject of the Unconscious
- The Subject of the Enunciation and the Subject of the Statement
- The Subversion of the Subject
- The Subject as Discontinuity in the Real
- Wo Es war, soll Ich werden
- Chapter 3: From the First to the Second Version of the Graph of Desire
- Introduction
- The Other in the Second Version of the Graph of Desire
- The Subject and the Other
- The Other as "Witness"
- Chapter 4: The Symbolic and the Imaginary
- The Imaginary: General Remarks
- The Ideal Ego and the Ego-Ideal
- Chapter 5: Language, the Unconscious, and Desire
- Introduction
- Beyond Need and Demand: Desire
- Desire and the Law: The Dialectic of Desire
- Further Characterization of Desire: The Transitional Object
- The Unconscious Is the Discourse of the Other
- Chapter 6: The Metapsychological Significance of the Phantasy and of the Object a
- The Third Version of the Graph of Desire
- The Significance of the Phantasy
- The Significance of the Object a
- The Object a and Lacan's Critique of the Psychoanalytic Tradition
- The Phantasy, the Object a, and Subjectivity: The Essentially Bodily Significance of Lack
- Chapter 7: The Truth of the Unconscious: S(Ø), the Castration Complex, and the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father
- The Final Version of the Graph
- The Significance of S(Ø)
- The Castration Complex in Freud
- The Imaginary Phallus
- The Father as Symbolic Third
- The Symbolic Father Is the "Dead" Father: Totem and Taboo
- The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father
- The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father and Symbolic Castration
- The Primacy of the Phallus, Sexuality, and the Unconscious
- The Phallus, Castration, and the Problem of Sexuation
- Chapter 8: The Impossible Jouissance: Elements of a Structural Psychopathology
- Introduction: The Jouissance of the Other and Pathology
- The Jouissance of the Other, the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father, and Psychosis
- The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex
- Perversion
- Phobia
- Neurosis: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis
- Jouissance, the Law, and the Pleasure Principle
- Ne pas céder sur son désir: Towards a Dialectic of Desire?
- Conclusion: The Primacy of Sexuality, or Against Adaptation
- References
