ABSTRACT
In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy, and the tragic dimension of analytical experience. One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter I|15 pages
Outline of the seminar
The Attraction of Transgression
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from Aristotle to Freud the Real the Three Ideals
part |68 pages
Introduction to the Thing
chapter II|16 pages
Pleasure and reality
The Moral Agency Actualizes the Real Inertia and Rectification Reality is Precarious Opposition and Intersection of the Principles
chapter III|8 pages
Rereading the Entwurf
An Ethics not a Psychology how Reality is Constituted a Topology of Subjectivity
chapter V|14 pages
Das Ding (II)
The Combinatoire of the Vorstellungen the Limit of Pain between Perception and Consciousness the Intersaid of Verneinung Mother as Das Ding
chapter VI|14 pages
On the moral law
The Critique of Practical Reason Philosophy in the Boudoir the Ten Commandments the Epistle to the Romans
part |80 pages
The Problem of Sublimation
chapter VII|14 pages
Drives and lures
The Domain of the Pastoral the Paradox of the Moral Conscience World and Body Luther the Problem of the Object Relation
chapter VIII|14 pages
The object and the thing
The Psychology of Affects the Kleinian Myth of the Mother Kantian Fables Sublimation and Perversion the Fable of Jacques Prévert, Collector
chapter IX|13 pages
On creation ex nihilo
The Wonders of Psychoanalysis that which in the Real Suffers from the Signifier the Fable of the Pot and the Vase Introduction to Catharism the Drive, an Ontological Notion
chapter X|11 pages
Marginal comments
Gnomic Propositions Art, Religion, Science on the Subject of Spitz Anamorphosis and Architecture the Primacy of the ES
chapter XI|16 pages
Courtly love as anamorphosis
On the History and Ends of Art the Sublimation of the Father on the Subject of Bernfeld the Vacuole and the Inhuman Partner Negotiating the Detour
chapter XII|10 pages
A critique of Bernfeld
Reaction Formation and Sublimation the Precociousness of Sublimation between Freudian Aesthetics and Ethics Sublimation and Identification a Curiosity
part |76 pages
The Paradox of Jouissance
chapter XIII|12 pages
The death of God
On Sexual Symbolism from the Numen to Moses's Message the Great Man and his Murder Freud's Christocentrism Jouissance and Debt
chapter XIV|12 pages
Love of one's neighbor
A Special God Fool and Knave the Truth About Truth why Jouissance is Evil
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Saint Martin Kantian Tales
chapter XV|14 pages
The jouissance of transgression
The Barrier to jouissance the Respect of the Image of the Other Sade, his Fantasm and his Doctrine Metipsemus Fragmented and Indestructible
chapter XVI|13 pages
The death drive
Marx and the Progressives Jouissance, the Satisfaction of a Drive the System of Pope Pius VI Creationism and Evolutionism Woman as Ex Nihilo
chapter XVII|13 pages
The function of the good
Saint Augustine and Sade Memory, Facilitation, Rite the Subject, Elision of a Signifier the Textile Fable Utility and Jouissance
chapter XVIII|10 pages
The function of the beautiful
The Duplicity of the Good on the Potlatch the Discourse of Science Forgets Nothing Outrage and Pain
part |47 pages
The Essence of Tragedy
chapter XIX|14 pages
The splendor of Antigone
The Meaning of Catharsis Hegel's Weakness the Function of the Chorus Goethe's Wish
chapter XX|13 pages
The articulations of the play
chapter XXI|18 pages
Antigone between two deaths
The-Race-is-Run Sophocles's Anti-Humanism the Law of Ex Nihilo the Death Drive Illustrated Complement
part |37 pages
The Tragic Dimension of Psychoanalytic Experience
chapter XXII|11 pages
The demand for happiness and the promise of analysis
Desire and the Last Judgment the Second Death the Fable of the Clodhoppers Hades and Dionysos the Analyst's Desire
chapter XXIII|9 pages
The moral goals of psychoanalysis
The Bourgeois Dream Oedipus, Lear, and the Service of Goods the Incorporation of the Superego the Three Fathers Unreconciled Oedipus
chapter XXIV|15 pages
The paradoxes of ethics or Have you acted in conformity with your desire?
The Comic Dimension the Fable of the Cash Register Desire and Guilt Giving Ground Relative to One's Desire Religion, Science and Desire
