ABSTRACT

The 'graph of desire' is one of the principal points of reference in Lacanian psychoanalysis. In this book the graph is analyzed in its multiple aspects and relations. Step by step, the author reveals and considers formulations from the simplest to the most complex. The treatment of this issue does not deal only with the development and explanation of its logical, mathematical and topological aspects but also goes through the psychoanalytical theory and practice. The author has immersed himself in Lacan's text "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious" to uncover and bring this fascinating subject to light.

chapter One|18 pages

Graph of desire and topology

chapter Four|17 pages

Graph one

chapter Six|21 pages

Ideal (I)—ego (m)—ideal (i): Graph 2

chapter Seven|17 pages

Graph 3: The question

chapter Nine|16 pages

Desire and fantasme: A pathway (II)

chapter Eleven|19 pages

The drive (I)

chapter Twelve|10 pages

The drive (II)

chapter Thirteen|18 pages

S(A): Being, jouissance and desire

chapter Fourteen|13 pages

S(Ⱥ): “Being (Res), jouissance and desire” (II)

chapter Fifteen|12 pages

The castration complex in Lacan's teaching