Chapter 1 Introduction. What is psychoanalysis? What have images got to do with it? What does the ego do?

Chapter 2 What has language got to do with psychoanalysis? What did Lacan mean when he said that ‘the unconscious is structured like a language’?

Chapter 3 Lacan’s theory of ‘the real’ as the ‘impossible to soy’ that always returns.

Chapter 4 ‘Jouissance’ or sexual enjoyment and desire. Is sexual enjoyment something that only happens in intercourse? How are ‘need’, ‘demand’ and ‘desire’ differentiated?

Chapter 5 Objects and their subject.

Chapter 6 The Four Discourses: four ways of speaking and being.

Chapter 7 Overview of psychopathology: focus on perversion, hysteria and obsessional neurosis.

Chapter 8 What is psychosis?

Chapter 9 What is feminine sexuality? What does it mean to be a woman?

Chapter 10 What is topology? and: What does it have to do with time? Why do Lacanians use variable length sessions?

Chapter 11 What is the good of psychoanalysis? and: What is the meaning of life?

Chapter 12 Review.

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY by chapter with suggestions for further reading

INDEX