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[[Image:Sem11.jpg|thumb|right|''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI''. ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis''.]]
* {{L}} ''[[The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI''. ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoPsychoanalysis''. Ed. [[Jacques-AnalysisAlain Miller]]''. EdTrans. [[Alan Sheridan]]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1981.
 
=====Description=====
''[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis]]'' is the English translation of one of the pivotal works of [[Jacques Lacan]].
The blurb describes the text as providing "illuminating insights into the mind Translation of the most controversial psychoanalyst since ''Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse''' by [[FreudAlan Sheridan]]".
This classic text probes the relationship between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[science]] and [[religion]] as well as defining the [[unconscious]], the [[repetition]], the [[transference]], and the [[drive]] as the underlying concepts of [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]].
=====Description=====
This classic text probes the relationship between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[science]] and [[religion]] as well as defining the [[unconscious]], the [[repetition]], the [[transference]], and the [[drive]] as the underlying concepts of [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]].
=====Back Cover=====
Dr Lacan’s [[Jacques Lacan]]’s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|writings]], and especially the [[seminars ]] for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circlesoffer a controversial, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by [[Freud.  This volume is based on a year’s seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever before, amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work]].
For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted “to introduce This volume is based on a certain coherence into the major concepts on year’s [[seminar]] in which psycho-analysis is based”Dr. [[Lacan]] addressed a larger, namely the unconsciousless specialized audience than ever before, repetition, the transference and the driveamong whom he could not assume familiarity with his work.
For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which [[psychoanalysis|psycho----analysis]] is based", namely the ''[[unconscious]]'', ''[[repetition]]'', the ''[[transference]]'' and the ''[[drive]]''.
In re-defining these four concepts Along the way he explores argues for a structural affinity between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[language]], discusses the question that, as he puts itrelation of [[psychoanalysis]] to [[religion]], moves and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from "Is psycho-analysis a [[sciencesexual difference|sexuality]] and [[death]]?" to "What is a [[sciencealienation]] and [[repression]] that includes psycho-analysis?" .
Dr Lacan argues in particular that there is a structural affinity between [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]], construed as This book constitutes the [[science]] essence of the [[unconscious]], and [[language]] – the [[science]] of [[linguistics]] being one of the significant discoveries of our [[timeLacan]]'s sensibility.
He also discusses the relation of [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]] to [[religion]], and reveals his particular stance on a wide range of topics, such as [[sexuality]] and [[death]], [[love]] and [[libido]], [[alienation]], [[interpretation]], [[repression]] and [[desire]].
 
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This book constitutes the essence of Dr Lacan’s sensibility.
 
There is no clearer statement of the ideas and issues which have aroused such passionate reactions in France, and which can now gain the hearing they deserve in the English-speaking world.
=====Contents=====
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| Preface to the English-Language Edition || vii
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| Editor's Note || xi
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| 1. Excommunication || 1
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| THE UNCONSCIOUS AND REPETITION
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| 2. The Freudian Unconscious and Ours || 17
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| 3. Of the Subject of Certainty || 29
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| 4. Of the Network of Signifiers || 42
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| 5. Tuche and Automaton || 53
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| OF THE GAZE AS ''Objet Petit a''
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| 6. The Split between the Eye and the Gaze || 67
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| 7. Anamorphosis || 79
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| 8. The Line and Light || 91
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| 9. What is a Picture? || 105
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| THE TRANSFERENCE AND THE DRIVE
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| 10. Presence of the Analyst || 123
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| 11. Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious || 136
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| 12. Sexualtiy in the Defiles of the Signifier || 149
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| 13. The Deconstruction of the Drive || 161
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| 14. The Partial Drive and its Circuit || 174
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| 15. From Love to the Libido || 187
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| THE FIELD OF THE OTHER AND BACK TO THE TRANSFERENCE
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| 16. The Subject and the Other: Alienation || 203
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| 17. The Subject and the Other: Aphanisis || 216
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| 18. Of the Subject who is Supposed to Know, of the first Dyad and of the Good || 230
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| 19. From Interpretation to the Transference || 244
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| TO CONCLUDE
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| 20. In you more than you || 263
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| Translator's Note || 277
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| Index || 283
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