Guide/Contents
The Imaginary
- Introduction
- Context and Influences
- Phenomenology
- The Self as Mirror Image
- The Dialectic of Recognition and Desire
- The Mirror Stage
- The Mirror, the Screen and the Spectator
- Christian Metz's Critique of Baudry
- Laura Mulvey and Visual Pleasure
- Summary
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 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
- Alienation and Separation
- The Lacanian Subject
- The Drive
- Hamlet and the Tragedy of Desire
- Summary
The Real
- Das Ding (The Thing)
- Unconscious Fantasy
- Summary
