1. Introduction: Clinical Psychodiagnostics versus Medical Diagnostics
2. Categorical Diagnostics versus Clinical Praxis: A Matter of Impossibility
3. The Impotence of Epistemology
4. Know-how in Clinical Practice: Doxa as the Result of Impotence and Impossibility
5. Conclusion: The Need for a Metapsychology
6. Identity as a Relational Structure
7. Defense in Double Time: A Linear Model
8. From a Linear to a Circular Model: On Becoming a Subject
9. Etiology and Evolution: Nature, Nurture, and the Theory of the Drive
10. Conclusion: The Subject’s Position in Relation to Anxiety, Guilt, and Depression
III: POSITIONS AND STRUCTURES OF THE SUBJECT
11. The Actualpathological Position: Panic Disorder and Somatization
12. Between Actualpathology and Psychopathology: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline
13. The Psychopathological Position of the Subject: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis
14. Perverse Structure versus Perverse Traits
15. The Psychotic Structure of the Subject