Description
Book SynopsisMajor Lacanian theorists and practitioners provide an introduction to and critique of Jacques Lacan's influential Seminar XVII
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
I. Clinic of the Discourses
1. On Shame / Jacques-Alain Miller 11
2. Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan’s Revision of the Oedipus Complex / Paul Verhaeghe 29
3. Beyond the Oedipus Complex / Russell Grigg 50
4. The Hysteric’s Truth / Ellie Ragland 69
5. Toward a New Perversion: Psychoanalysis / Dominiek Hoens 88
II. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
6.
Objet a in Social Links / Slavoj Žižek 107
7. Hegel as the Other Side of Psychoanalysis / Mladen Dolar 129
8. When Surplus Enjoyment Meets Surplus Value / Alenka Zupancic 155
9. Enjoy Your Stay: Structural Change in
Seminar XVII / Oliver Feltham 179
10. More Thoughts for the Times on War and Death: The Discourse of Capitalism in
Seminar XVII / Juliet Flower MacCannell 195
11. The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis / Dominique Hecq 216
III. Discourses of Contemporary Life
12. Symptom and Discourse / Éric Laurent 229
13. Common Markets and Segregation / Marie-Helene Brousse
14. The Intimate, the Extimate, and Psychoanalytic Discourse / Pierre-Gilles Gueguen 263
15. Bureaucratic Speech Acts and the University Discourse: Lacan’s Theory of Modernity / Geoff Boucher 274
16. The “Revolution” in Advertising and University Discourse / Matthew Sharpe 392
Contributors 315
Index 319