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Introduction to the reading of Lacan : the unconscious structured like a language

Author: Joël Dor; Judith Feher Gurewich; Susan Fairfield
Publisher: New York : Other Press, ©1998.
Series: Lacanian clinical field.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Jacques Lacan
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joël Dor; Judith Feher Gurewich; Susan Fairfield
ISBN: 1892746042 9781892746047
OCLC Number: 40622618
Description: xxv, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: The "return to Freud" --
Part I. Linguistics and the formation of the unconscious --
Condensation and displacement in dream work --
The notion of structure --
Elements of structural linguistics --
The value of the linguistic sign and Lacan's anchoring point --
Metaphor, metonymy and the primacy of the signifier --
Condensation as a metaphoric process --
Displacement and dream work as metonymic processes --
The joke as a metaphoric-metonymic process --
The symptom as a metaphoric process --
Part II. The paternal metaphor as the structural crossroads of sujectivity --
The predominance of the phallus --
The mirror stage and the Oedipus Complex --
The paternal metaphor, the name-of-the-father, the metonymy of desire --
The foreclosure of the name-of-the-father : an approach to psychotic processes --
The division of the subject and the advent of the unconscious through the signifying order --
The splitting of the subject : alienation in language --
Subject of the unconscious, subject of the enunciation, subject of the utterance --
The alienation of the subject in the ego, Schema L, the foreclosure of the subject --
Dialectic of consciousness and dialectic of desire --
Part III. Desire, language, the unconscious --
Need, desire, demand --
The graph of desire 1 : from the anchoring point to the chatterbox --
The formula of communication and the unconscious as discourse of the other --
The graph of desire 2 : the creation of meaning in the signifying technique of the joke and the subversion of the unconscious in language --
The graph of desire 3 : the coupling of desire with the signifier --
The "generation" of the graph.
Series Title: Lacanian clinical field.
Other Titles: Introduction à la lecture de Lacan.
Responsibility: Joël Dor ; edited by Judith Feher-Gurewich in collaboration with Susan Fairfield.

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