Talk:Classified Index of the Major Concepts

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1. The reader will find in this index, drawn up according to an order that I have established, the major concepts of Lacan's theory, referred to the contexts in which they occur - these contexts themselves providing their essential definitions, their functions and their principal pro­perties.
2. In the pages referred to after each term in the index, it is the concept, not the word, that is to be looked for. I have chosen to designate the classified concept by the expression that seemed to me most adequate and most comprehensive, usually proceeding by retroaction from the latest stage in the development of the theory.
3. I am well aware that with such an articulation what I was offering was necessarily an interpretation. It seemed to me, therefore, to be oppor­tune to explain it in a few words, so that one may, after following my reasoning, deduct it from the sum of the index.
4. I have chosen to isolate the concepts which, concerning the theory of the subject, are of interest, if only by denying them their names, to the human sciences as a whole, with the effect of stressing the specificity of the analytic experience (in its Lacanian definition: the bringing into play of the reality of the unconscious, the introduction of the subject to the language of his desire).
5. If the signifier is constituent for the subject (1, A), one may follow, through its defiles, the process of transformation (of mutilation) that makes a subject of man, through the obliquity of narcissism (I, B). The properties of symbolic overdetermination explain why the logical time of this history is not linear (I, C).
6. One must then take again in their simultaneity the elements succes­sively presented (II, A, B, C). One will observe that the topology of the subject finds its statute only hy being related to the geometry of the Ego (II, B, 4 and II, C, 3). One is now in a position to grasp the functioning of communication: in its structure, all the pieces of the game find their place (II, D).
7. From the structure of communication, one will deduce what is the power of the treatment, with what ear to listen to the unconscious, what training to give analysis (III, A, B). The last part (III, C) is centred on the eminent signifier of desire. The following section (IV) is clinical (the account of it is very succinct).
8. As for the Lacanian epistemology, it marks, I believe the position of psychoanalysis in the epistemological break, in as much as through the Freudian field the foreclosed subject of science returns into the impossible of its discourse. There is, therefore, a single ideology of which Lacan provides the theory: that of the 'modern ego', that is to say, the paranoiac subject of scientific civilization, which a warped psychology theorizes the imaginary, at the service of free enterprise.

Jacques-Alain Miller

Index

1. THE SYMBOLIC ORDER
   1. The Supremacy of the Signifier (see: The place of the Other)
      1. The exteriority, autonomy and displacement of the signifier; it defiles.
         1. Exteriority: 64-66.
         2. The defiles: 65-66, 126-127, 147-148, 158 (and the proper name), 55-256, 310-311.

3. The structure: the symholic, the imaginary, the real: 65 (production of the real by the symbolic), 180- h. 18J (hallucination), 191 (supremacy

of the symbolic over the imaginary), 195 (supremacy of the symbolic Th . if3' . over the real), 19J (intrusion of the 2. e Slgnl eymg Unit ... imaginary in the real). a. Symbol, letter, slgmfier: 61-65, 82, 104, 152-153, 183-184,233-234, 4. The supremacy of the signifier OYer 263,316-317. the signified: 150-154, 160,284, h. Articulation: 126. 289-29°. c. Materiality and locus of the letter: 87, 14J-148. B. The Defiles of the Signifier The genesis of the ego: imaginary identification (see: The ft.nction of the ego). a. Primordial symbolization and primary identification (the demand for love and the 'Fort-Da'): 10.]­104,207,23.]-234,255,285-286. hi. The mirror-stage: l-J, 42, 54-55, 13J-139, 196, 209, 21I-212. h2 • Narcissism: 16-25, 123. h3• Aggressivity: 8-29, 42 (see: The fragmented hody). c1• The superego: 21, 143, 255-256. c2• The ideal ego: 2, 30J. The production of the suhject: symholic identification (see: The structure of the subject).

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328 Classified index of the major concepts Classified index of the major concepts C. The Structure of the Subject 329 a. The ego-ideal, introjection and the function of the single stroke: 197,274,306-307,316-317. b. The Name-of-the-Father (agency of the symbolic, or dead, Father) and primal repression: 67, 199,217, 310,314 (see: Foreclosure). c. The Law (symbolic pact, debt): 61-62,65-68, 14.3-144. d. The Oedipus complex (secondary, normalizing identification): 5-6, 20-25, 66, 197. The true subject. a. The subject of the chain: 7.3-74, 179-181,195-196. bi• The subject of science: 70-72, 216,292-293 (see: Psychoanalysis and science). b2• 'Wo es war, soIl Ich werden': 128-129,171,299-300,31.3-314. b3• 'Cogito, (ergo) sum': 16.¢-165, 3°7· c. Affirmation, repression, (de)nega­tion, foreclosure: (see Index of C. The Signifying Cham Repetition (repetition compulsion, the insistence of the chain): 102-103, 15.3-154, 199-200 (see: Regres­sion). Overdetermination and logical time (anticipation and retroaction; chance, encounter and destiny): 48, 75, 196, 197-198,306. Remembering, recollection: 141-142 (contrasted with imaginary reminiscence), 167. Death, the second death, the death drive, the real as impossible, the being of the existent: 8,28-29, 101-106, 140, 168-169, 196,213-214, 3°7-309. German terms under Bejahung, Verdriingung, Verneinung, Verwerfung). The division, splitting and fading of the subject: 2-3 79-80, 277, 285, 294, 311-313 (see: Desire and phantasy). The topology of the subject (symbolic space): 105, 142, 187, 195-198, 285, 302-303, 316 (see: The locus of the letter, The geometry of the ego, The locus of the Other, Metaphor). D. Intersubjective Communication Critique of positivism. a. Language as sign: 83-84, 124-125, 149-150. b. Metalanguage: 61, 150, 310-3II. The function of the ']' and the subject of the enunciation: 23, 4.3-44, 86-87, 123, 165-166, 183-188, 253,298-300 (see: Over­determination). The Other. a. Formula of communication: 'Human language constitutes a communication in which the emitter receives from the receiver his own II. THE EGO, THE SUBJECT A. The Body, The Ego, The Subject (The Organism, One's Own Body, The Fragmented Body) (see: The mirror-stage, The subject of the chain) 2,4-5,11,52-54,69,87,126-127, !62, 196-197,248,301-302,314-316. B. The Function of the Ego (see: The genesis of the ego, The theory of ideology) The illusion of autonomy. a. Mlconnaissance: 6, 15-20,41-42, 138. b. The paranoiac structure of the ego (and of human knowledge): .3-4, 17, 138. c. The formations of the ego (ideals of the person): 281-283 (see; The superego, The ideal ego, The ego ideal) d. Representation: 160-162, 272 (see Desire and phantasy). e. Defence: 5, 10 (see: 'Frustration', Resistance). f. Love and hate: 7, 54, 243-244, 255 (see: Primal symboli{ation, Narcissism, The objet a). Projection. a. Identification with the other, transitivism, projection, the dual relation: 9, 14-15, 134. b. The animal (animal psychology): 3, 86, 148, 195, 305. ci• Hegelian categories: the struggle to the death, recognition, prestige, the absolute Master: 25-29, 42,99, 142,307. c2• Consciousness of self, infatuation, the belle ame, the law of the heart, the cunning of Reason, absolute nowledge: 79-81,122, 126, 296-297.

'Group psychology': 274-275 (see: The ego-ideal, The single stroke). The geometry of the ego (imaginary space): 3, 27, 96, 134 (see: The topology of the subject). message in an inverted form': 40-41, 83-84, 85-86, 269. b. The Other and the other: 55-56, 139-140, 175,304-305 (see: Projection). c. The locus of the Other: 60-61, 141-142, 172-173, 192-197, 212-213,214-215,263-264, 302-313 (see: The supremacy of the symbolic). d. 'The unconscious is the discourse of the Other': 55-56, 193,26.3-264, 267-269,311-313 (see: 'Man's desire is the desire of the Other'). III. DESIRE AND ITS INTERPRETATION A. The Formations of the Unconscious (see: Communication) The symptom (the censor and truth; 2. The rhetoric of the unconscious. repression and the return of the a. The point of desire: 49-53, repressed): 10, 51, 55, 59, 69,81-82, 57-61,159-171,256-259. 129, 137, 155-156, 175,285 (see: bi• Metaphor: 53 (contrasted with The truth). analogy), 156-157, 164, 199-200, 303-304. b2• Metonymy: 156, 164. C 33°

Classified index of the major concepts B. The Analytic Experience

Classified index of the major concepts B. Psychiatric Practice

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C. The Phallus V. EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF IDEOLOGY A. Epistemology . The epistemological break (the b. Psychoanalysis and science: example of physics): SJ-I0, 72-73, 56-57,72,76-77, Z62, 174· II4 179 294-296. C . , , 3. onjecture Truth a. The conjectural ('human') a. Truth as fiction, as secret, as sciences: 66,7.3-77, 148-15°. symptom: 47, 74-75 (opposed to b. Psychology as science; its object: exactitude), 98 (opposed to 130. exactitude), 123,305-306. - B. The Theo(y of Ideology Technique: 33-36, 45, 48-49, 75­76• a. Empty speech (the discourse of the imaginary): 41-42, 45-46, z39 (see: Narcissism, The illusion of autonomy). b. Abjection of the theory of the ego in analysis (splitting of the ego and identification with the analyst): 44-45,90-9z, ZZ9 (abjection) (see: The theory of ideology). 'frustration': 4Z-42. d. Resistance: 13, 23-24, 79, 129­131, z42, 235. a. Neutrality and the analyst's response: z2-z6, 43, 89-9°,93, 95-96, z3g-z40, 229-230. b. The transference: 14 (negative), 58, z66-z67, z70, 235-237, 241-25°, 26z. The drives: z89-190, 236--237, 314-3Z6• L'objet a: Z97-Z98, 220-22Z, 239, 243-244,250, 25z-252, 265, 274-275, 3Z4-3Z6, 322-324. Jouissance, Castration: Z98-Z99, 206-207,246, 262-269, 28z-29Z, 316--318.

c. Intransitive demand and sup­pression: 4Z-49, 254-256, 270-274 (see: The locus of the Other, Repetition, Need, demand, desire). a. Punctuation, interpretation: 44, 81,95-96,98-99, z54 (see: Repetition). b. The purpose and end of analysis (full speech, the language of desire, the subjectification of death): 7, 43, 80-83,88, z05, z7z, 281 (see: Death, Castration). The training of analysts. a. The knowledge (savoir) of the analyst and the training analysis: 82-83, 144-145, 147 (see Epistemology). b. Psychoanalytic associations: 30-36, 226--228 (see: The theory of ideology). Desire. a. 'Man's desire is the desire of the Other': 5-6, 58, 67, 288-289. b. Desire and the Law; need, demand, desire; desire and phantasy: z66-z67, Z75, 244, 252, 258-259, 263-265, 269, 272, 275-276, 285-288,310-313,322-323.

Neurosis a. Neurosis; in general: 28-29, 168; hysteria: 5, 14, 89-90; phobia: 14, 248-249' b. Obsessional neurosis: 5, 14, 89-90, 99, 199,236--238, 247, 268. Perversion: in general: 197-198; sado-masochism: 25; scoptophilia: 25; homosexuality, 25, 55· The ideology of freedom: theory of the autonomous ego, humanism, rights of man, responsibility, anthropomorphism, ideals, instinctual maturation, etc.: 26-27, 53-55, 132, z65, 2z6, 230-231, 306•

Psychosis (see: Verwerfung). Psychosis (in general): 179-221. b. Paranoia (in Kraepelin's sense): 5, 16--17· The ideology of free enterprise: the American Way of Life, human relations, human engineering, success, happiness, pattern, etc.: 37-38, II5-II6, 127-128,231, 243·

IV. CLINICAL PRACTICE A. Freud's Cases

Dora: 77-78, 91-92, 236, 274· The Rat Man: 77-79, 88-89, 235-238• The Wolf Man: 48, 77--'78, 87, 117·

Judge Schreber: 36, 93, 183-192, 199-221. Little Hans: 36, 168. The dream of the butcher's wife: 257.