Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Part I: Cultural
Introduction
1. The Object of Jouissance in Music
Sebastian Leikert
2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile
Peter Widmer
3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt?
Raymond Borens
4. Identification in the Name of Lolita
Joachim Saalfrank
5. The Beauty behind the Window Shutters
August Ruhs
Part II: Sexual
Introduction
6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference
Rudolph Bernet
7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's Fold
Johannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli
8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman
Anne Juranville
9. Symbolic Mother--Real Father
Regula Schindler
Part III: Clinical
Introduction
10. "But It, the World . . . It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression
Christian Klaui
11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its Consequences
Monique David-Menard
12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto
Elisabeth Widmer
13. Demand and Wish
Lucien Israel
14. Psychosis and Names
Andre Michels
Part IV: Philosophical
Introduction
15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud
Samuel Weber
16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Hans-Dieter Gondek
17. Sacrifice and the Law
Bernard Baas
18. Freud and Democracy
Peter Widmer
19. The Lacanian Thing
Alain Juranville
Contributors
Index