The Lacanian Subject : Between Language and Jouissance / Bruce Fink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Bruce, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.) : 50 b/w illus. 16 tables.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A lucid guide through the labyrinth of Lacanian theoryThis book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Guiding readers through many facets of Lacanian theory, Bruce Fink unpacks such central notions as the Other, object a, the unconscious as structured like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual difference. He demonstrates that, against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who proclaim “the death of the subject,” Lacan explores what it means to come into being as a subject in its ethical and ontological dimensions. Presenting Lacan’s thought in the context of his clinical preoccupations, The Lacanian Subject offers one of the most balanced, sophisticated, and penetrating views of Lacanian psychoanalysis available.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 30th Anniversary Edition

Preface

Part One STRUCTURE: ALIENATION AND THE OTHER

1 Language and Otherness

2 The Nature of Unconscious Thought, or How the Other Half "Thinks"

3 The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real

Part Two THE LACANIAN SUBJECT

4 The Lacanian Subject

5 The Subject and the Other's Desire

6 Metaphor and the Precipitation of Subjectivity

Part Three THE LACANIAN OBJECT: LOVE, DESIRE, JOUISSANCE

7 Object (a): Cause of Desire

8 There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship

Part Four THE STATUS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE

9 The Four Discourses

10 Psychoanalysis and Science

Afterword

Appendix 1 The Language of the Unconscious

Appendix 2 Stalking the Cause

Glossary of Lacanian Symbols

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Errata

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2025)

ISBN:

9780691272955

0691272956