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Book SynopsisWhen I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet.
Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note
Abbreviations
The Freudian structures of wit
I. The Famillionaire
II. The Fat-millionaire
III. The Miglionaire
IV. The Golden Calf
V. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense
VI. Whoah, Neddy!
VII. Une Femme de Non-Recevoir, or : A Flat Refusal
THE LOGIC OF CASTRATION
VIII. Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father
IX. The Paternal Metaphor
X. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (I)
XI. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (II)
XII. From Image to Signifier Ð in Pleasure and in Reality
XIII. Fantasy, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PHALLUS
XIV. Desire and Jouissance
XV. The Girl and the Phallus
XVI. Insignias of the Ideal
XVII. The Formulas of Desire
XVIII. Symptoms and Their Masks
XIX. Signifier, Bar and Phallus
The dialectic of desire and demand in the clinical study and treatment of the neuroses
XX. The Dream by the Butcher’s Beautiful Wife
XXI. The ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ Dreams
XXII. The Other’s Desire
XXIII. The Obsessional and his Desire
XXIV. Transference and Suggestion
XXV. The Signification of the Phallus in the Treatment
XXVI. The Circuits of Desire
XXVII. Exiting via the Symptom
XXVIII. You Are the One You Hate
APPENDICES
The Graph of Desire
Explanation of the Schemas
Editor’s Note
Translator’s Endnotes
Index
