The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 7Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such influential and diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud. From here he leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives. Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents Lacan's most sophisticated work on love, desire, and jouissance. |
Contents
Outline of the seminar | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE THING | 17 |
Pleasure and reality | 19 |
Rereading the Entwurf | 35 |
Das Ding | 43 |
On the moral law | 71 |
THE PROBLEM OF SUBLIMATION | 85 |
Drives and lures | 87 |
The death of God | 167 |
Love of ones neighbor | 179 |
The jouissance of transgression | 191 |
The death drive | 205 |
The function of the good | 218 |
The function of the beautiful | 231 |
The splendor of Antigone | 243 |
The articulations of the play | 257 |
The object and the thing | 101 |
On creation ex nihilo | 115 |
Marginal comments | 128 |
Courtly love as anamorphosis | 139 |
A critique of Bernfeld | 155 |
THE PARADOX OF JOUISSANCE | 165 |
Antigone between two deaths | 270 |
The demand for happiness and the promise of analysis | 291 |
The moral goals of psychoanalysis | 302 |
The paradoxes of ethics or Have you acted | 311 |
Common terms and phrases
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