Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously

Author(s) : Maria Aristodemou

Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2015
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 190
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97982
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138787261
  • ISBN 10 : 1138787264

Table of Contents


Introduction: The Unconscious is Out There

Part A: The Hole in the Subject
1. In the Beginning Was Lack
2. The Divided Subject: Freud
3. The Divided Subject: Lacan
4. Language, Truth and Lies
5. Demand Minus Need, The Hysteric and Her Master
6. The Bedrock of Sexual Difference

Part B: The Hole in The Big Other
7. The Hole in Reality: Ideology Without End
8. The One Who Enjoys
9. The Subject’s Love of the Law
10. Transgression Without End?
11. Guilt Before the Law
12. Enjoyment Minus Freedom
13. The Hole in the Law
14. The Hole in the Master

Part C: Placebos
15. In Place of the Object: Fantasy
16. The Subject and Her ‘Decaffeinated’ Neighbor
17. Work, Capitalism, Sex, Shopping (and shopping for sex)
18. Art, Culture, Poetry, Love
19. Nation, Community
20. Democracy, Bureaucracy

Part D: Atheism
21. Dethroning the Master
22. From Lack to the Act
23. Towards An Atheist Jurisprudence

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