ABSTRACT
Covering lessons twenty to twenty-seven of the seminar, this chapter considers at length how Lacan recapitulates and expands on the central tenet of the year’s teaching; the new notion of the subject of desire as Figure found and deleted here... which is the structure of fantasy. The author considers how the shadow of Hamlet from the preceding section falls upon this recapitulation and how the processes involved with respect to the subject and the Other are referred to as “a common tragedy”. The ground-breaking aspects of his development of the o-object are noted in conjunction with his critique of the object relations theories and the British school. Extending well beyond mere recapitulation, however, the author further notes and examines how the new developments and concepts are woven into the clinical field as well as tied to solid Freudian positions.
