Against Adaptation

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Contents

Introduction: Freud's Copernican Revolution

The Primacy of the Symbolic and the Unconscious

Freud and Lacan on the Unconscious and Language
A Few General Remarks on Lacan's Theory of Language
The Elementary Cell of the Graph of Desire: The Symbolic and the Real
The Body, Language, and the Unconscious

The Subject of the Unconscious

The Subject of the Enunciation and the Subject of the Statement
The Subversion of the Subject
The Subject as Discontinuity in the Real
Wo Es war, soll Ich werden

From the First to the Second Version of the Graph of Desire

Introduction
The Other in the Second Version of the Graph of Desire
The Subject and the Other
The Other as "Witness"

The Symbolic and the Imaginary

The Imaginary: General Remarks
The Ideal Ego and the Ego-Ideal

Language, the Unconscious, and Desire

Introduction
Beyond Need and Demand: Desire
Desire and the Law: The Dialectic of Desire
Further Characterization of Desire: The Transitional Object
The Unconscious Is the Discourse of the Other

The Metapsychological Significance of the Phantasy and of the Object a

The Third Version of the Graph of Desire
The Significance of the Phantasy
The Significance of the Object a
The Object a and Lacan's Critique of the Psychoanalytic Tradition
The Phantasy, the Object a, and Subjectivity: The Essentially Bodily Significance of Lack

The Truth of the Unconscious: S(O), the Castration Complex, and the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father

The Final Version of the Graph
The Significance of S(O)
The Castration Complex in Freud
The Imaginary Phallus
The Father as Symbolic Third
The Symbolic Father Is the "Dead" Father: Totem and Taboo
The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father
The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father and Symbolic Castration
The Primacy of the Phallus, Sexuality, and the Unconscious
The Phallus, Castration, and the Problem of Sexuation

The Impossible Jouissance: Elements of a Structural Psychopathology

Introduction: The Jouissance of the Other and Pathology
The Jouissance of the Other, the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father, and Psychosis
The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex
Perversion
Phobia
Neurosis: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis
Jouissance, the Law, and the Pleasure Principle
Ne pas céder sur son désir: Towards a Dialectic of Desire?

Conclusion: The Primacy of Sexuality, or Against Adaptation