CONTENTS
Notes on the contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology of Lacan’s life
1
Lacan’s turn to Freud
Jean-Michel Rabaté
2
The mirror stage: an obliterated archive
Elisabeth Roudinesco
3
Lacan’s myths
Darian Leader
4
Lacan’s science of the subject: between linguistics and topology
Dany Nobus
5
From the letter to the matheme: Lacan’s scientific methods
Bernard Burgoyne
6
The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis
Colette Soler
7
Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan
Néstor Braunstein
8
Lacan and philosophy
Charles Shepherdson
9
Lacan’s Marxism, Marxism’s Lacan (from
i
ek to Althusser)
Joe Valente
10
Ethics and tragedy in Lacan
Alenka Zupan
i
11
A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion
Judith Feher-Gurewich
12
What is a Lacanian clinic?
Diana Rabinovich
13
Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism
Deborah Luepnitz
14
Lacan and queer theory
Tim Dean
15
Lacan’s afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol
Catherine Liu
Further reading
Index
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