Political

1. The Lacanian Subject: The impossibility of identity and the centrality of identification
   1. Prolegomena
   2. Alienation in the imaginary: "the ego is essentially an alter ego"
   3. Alienation in the symbolic: "the subject takes a structure from the signifier"
   4. From identity to identification: imaginary and symbolic dimensions
   5. Politics of the subject: identification or what?

1. The Lacanian Object: Dialectics of social impossibility
   1. The objective is also lacking
   2. Fantasy and the promise of fullness
   3. Lacan and the social construction of reality: posing the problem
   4. Exploring reality
      1. Metaphor and metonymy
      2. Point de capiton
      3. Fantasy supports reality
   5. From reality to the real: Towards a realist constructionism or a constructionist realism?

1. Ambiguous Democracy and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
   1. The ambiguities of modern democracy: beyond the politics of harmony
   2. Lacanian ethics: beyond the ethics of harmony
   3. Two axes of Lacanian ethics: sublimation and identification with the symptom
   4. In plalce of a conclusion: psychoanalysis, ethics and politics