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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The meaning of a return
Notes
References
1. ‘Surprised by truth’: Socrates, Plato and the Lacanian seminar
Introduction
What kind of knowledge is psychoanalysis?
Teaching beyond the pleasure principle
Snobs, mobs and poubellication: writing resistance
Coda: the atopic academy
Notes
References
2. The myth of sexual reproduction
Introduction
Freud’s use of Aristophanes’ myth
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Freud’s mythic-molecular vision
Lacan’s use of Aristophanes’ myth
Notes
References
3. Creation and castration: Making something out of nothing
Introduction
The spontaneous universe
‘A conspiracy against time’
Lacan’s creation ex nihilo: touching the void
The flawed universe
The accidental universe
Notes
References
4. Exploiting tragedy: Psychoanalysis, fate and free will
Psychoanalysis and fate
The tragic point of view
Innocent guilt
Conclusion: tragedy as cure
Notes
References
5. Unknown pleasures: Orgasms and epistemology
Introduction: Tiresias, the seer
Whose jouissance is it anyway?
Klossowski with Actaeon: ‘the itch to be seen’
Shame and castration: veiling absence
A phallus amongst the Bacchae
Insufficient pleasures
Notes
References
Index
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