Guide/Contents
Reference
The Imaginary
The Symbolic
- Introduction
- The Primacy of the Signifier
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
- The Symbolic Order
- The Purloined Letter
- Summary
The Oedipus Complex and the Meaning of the Phallus
- Introduction
- The Oedipus Complex
- The Meaning of the Phallus
- The Imaginary Phallus
- The Symbolic Phallus
- The Law of the Father and the Superego
- The Two Fathers
- Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Imperative to Enjoyment!
- Summary
The Subject of the Unconscious
- Introduction
- Formations of the Unconscious
- The Unconscious as Gap or Rupture
- The Unconscious is Structured like a Language
- The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other
- Alienation and Separation
- The Lacanian Subject
- The Drive
- Hamlet and the Tragedy of Desire
- Summary
The Real
- Das Ding (The Thing)
- Unconscious Fantasy
- Summary
Sexual Difference
- Introduction
- Freud and the Enigma of Feminine Sexuality
- To Have or to Be the Phallus?
- Femininity as Masquerade
- The Woman Does Not Exist
- Encore: The Theory of Sexuation
- Masculinity
- Femininity
- There is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
- Courtly Love
- Summary
After Lacan
- Introduction
- The Social-Ideological Fantasy
- Literary Theory
- Film as Fantasy
- Summary
- Summary