The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

Author: Jacques Lacan
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 3rd September 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-42361-8

About the Book

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies.

He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that included Jean-Paul Sartre and Luce Irigaray amongst other hugely influential names. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis is a transcript of his most important lecture series.

Including influential readings of Sophocles’ Antigone and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note 1. Outline of the Seminar 2. Pleasure and Reality 3. Rereading the Entwurf 4. Das Ding 5. Das Ding (II) 6. On the Moral Law 7. Drives and Lures 8. The Object and the Thing 9. On Creation Ex Nihilo 10. Marginal Comments 11. Courtly Love as Anamorphosis 12. A Critique of Bernfeld 13. The Death of God 14. Love of One's Neighbour 15. The Jouissance of Transgression 16. The Death Drive 17. The Function of the Good 18. The Function of the Beautiful 19. The Splendor of Antigone 20. The Articulations of the Play 21. Antigone Between Two Deaths 22. The Demand for Happiness and the Promise of Analysis 23. The Moral Goals of Psychoanalysis 24. The Paradoxes of Ethics or Have you Acted Inconformity with your Desire?

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