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Book SynopsisHas Jacques Lacan's impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is "structured like a language" is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There was then the radically new thesis of the "real unconscious". Why this step?Searching for the Ariadne's thread that runs throughout Lacan's ever-evolving teaching, this book illuminates the questions implicit in each step, and sheds new light on his revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts. In tracing these, Colette Soler brings out their consequences for the clinic, and in particular, for the subject, for symptoms, for affects, and for the aims of treatment itself. The last section of the book examines the political import of these developments.If many analysts since Freud have dreamt of reinventing psychoanalysis, Colette Soler shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in this reinvention.
Table of ContentsIntroduction -- The Unconscious, Real -- Trajectory -- Towards the Real -- Lalangue, traumatic -- From the transference towards the other unconscious -- The royal road to the RUCS -- The Borromean aleph -- The parlêtre -- Analysis Oriented Towards the Real -- The end pass -- The time that isn’t logical -- Terminable analysis -- Identification with the symptom or … worse -- The identity at the end, its aporias -- A Renewed Clinic -- The status of jouissances -- Symptom of the real unconscious -- The father and the Real -- Towards the father of the name -- Love and the Real -- Political Perspectives -- Dissidence of the symptom? -- Psychoanalysis and capitalism -- Malaise in psychoanalysis -- What does the psychoanalyst want?
