CONTENTS

	Translator’s note
I	Outline of the seminar

INTRODUCTION TO THE THING

II	Pleasure and reality
III	Rereading the Entwurf
IV	Das Ding
V	Das Ding (II)
VI	On the moral law

THE PROBLEM OF SUBLIMATION

VII	Drives and lures
VIII	The object and the thing
IX	On creation ex nihilo
X	Marginal comments
XI	Courtly love as anamorphosis
XII	A critique of Bernfeld

THE PARADOX OF JOUISSANCE

XIII	The death of God
XIV	Love of one’s neighbor
XV	The jouissance of transgression
XVI	The death drive
XVII	The function of the good
XVIII	The function of the beautiful

THE ESSENCE OF TRAGEDY

A Commentary on Sophocles’s Antigone

XIX	The splendor of Antigone
XX	The articulations of the play
XXI	Antigone between two deaths

THE TRAGIC DIMENSION OF ANALYTICAL EXPERIENCE

XXII	The demand for happiness and the promise of analysis
XXIII	The moral goals of psychoanalysis
XXIV	The paradoxes of ethics or Have you acted in conformity with your desire?
	Acknowledgments
	Bibliography
	Index