Guide/Contents

Reference

• Preface
• Introduction
• Authors
• Glossary

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 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

From the Symbolic to the Real

Introduction

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

Sexuality and Science

Introduction

Summary

Lacan and Film

Introduction

Summary

Lacan and Literature

Introduction

Summary

After Lacan

Introduction

The Social-Ideological Fantasy

Literary Theory

Film as Fantasy

Summary