Reading Seminar XI

Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English

Edited by Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, and Maire Jaanus

Subjects: Comparative Literature
Series: SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Paperback : 9780791421482, 312 pages, December 1994
Hardcover : 9780791421475, 312 pages, January 1995

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Table of contents

Preface

Context and Concepts

Alienation and Separation (I)

 Éric Laurent

Alienation and Separation (II)

Éric Laurent

The Subject and the Other (I)

Colette Soler

The Subject and the Other (II) 

Colette Soler

Science and Psychoanalysis

Bruce Fink

The Name-of-the-Father

François Regnault

Transference as Deception

Pierre-Gilles Gueguen

The Passionate Dimension of Transference

Jean-Pierre Klotz

The Drive (I)

Marie-Hélène Brousse

The Drive (II)

Marie-Hélène Brousse

The Démontage of the Drive

Maire Jaanus

Part IV: The Gaze and Object a

The Gaze as an Object

Antonio Quinet

The Phallic Gaze of Wonderland

Richard Feldstein

The "Evil Eye" of Painting: Jacques Lacan and Witold Gombrowicz on the Gaze

Hanjo Berressem

Art and the Position of the Analyst

Robert Samuels

The Relation between the Voice and the Gaze

Ellie Ragland

The Lamella of David Lynch

Slavoj Zizek

Part V: Repetition

The Real Cause of Repetition

Bruce Fink

Part VI: Discovery and Psychoanalytic Practice

Introductory Talk at Sainte-Anne Hospital

Jacques-Alain Miller

The End of Analysis (I)

Anne Dunand

The End of Analysis (II)

Part VII: Translation from the Écrits

Position of the Unconscious (1964)

Jacques Lacan  Translated by Bruce Fink

Index

Description

This book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. The 16 contributors unpack Lacan's notoriously difficult work in simple terms, and supply elegant illustrations from a variety of fields: psychoanalytic treatment, film, literature, art, and so on. Each of Lacan's fundamental concepts--the unconscious, transference, drive, and repetition--is discussed in detail, and related to other important notions such as object a cause of desire, the gaze, the Name-of-the-Father, the subject, and the Other. This volume also includes a translation of Lacan's companion piece to Seminar XI, "Position of the Unconscious" (an article from the French edition of the Ecrits that has never before appeared in English), by one of the foremost translators of Lacan's work, Bruce Fink. As an indication of the important of this article, Lacan considered it to be the sequel to his "Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis," arguably his most important paper in the 1950s.

The contributors include many of the best minds in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world in Paris today. Chapters include "Excommunication: Context and Concepts" by Jacques-Alain Miller, "The Subject and the Other I and II" by Colette Soler, "Alienation and Separation I and II" by Eric Laurent, "Science and Psychoanalysis" by Bruce Fink, "The Name-of-the-Father" by Francois Regnault, "Transference as Deception" by Pierre-Gilles Gueguen, "The Drive I and II" by Marie-Hele`ne Brousse, "The Demontage of the Drive" by Maire Jaanus, "The Gaze as an Object" by Antonio Quinet, "The Phallic Gaze of Wonderland" by Richard Feldstein, "The 'Evil Eye' of Painting: Jacques Lacan and Witold Gombrowicz on the Gaze" by Hanjo Berressem, "Art and the Position of the Analyst" by Robert Samuels, "The Relation between Voice and the Gaze" by Ellie Ragland, "The Lamella of David Lynch" by Slavoj Zizek, "The Real Cause of Repetition" by Bruce Fink, "Introductory Talk at Sainte-Anne Hospital" by Jacques-Alain Miller, and "The End of Analysis I and II" by Anne Dunand.

Richard Feldstein is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Bruce Fink is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Member of the Ecole de la Cause freudiennce, and Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. Maire Jaanus is Professor of English at Barnard College.