Anxiety / Jacques Lacan ; edited by Jacques-Alain Miller ; translated by A. R. Price.

  • Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Date:
[2014]
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About this work

Also known as

Angoisse. English

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity Press, [2014]

Physical description

vi, 352 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition

English edition.

Notes

First published in French as La Séminaire livre X - L'angoisse © Éditions du seuil, 2004.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction to the structure of anxiety. Anxiety in the net of signifiers ; Anxiety, sign of desire ; From the cosmos to the unheimliche ; Beyond castration anxiety ; That which deceives ; That which deceives not -- Revision of the status of the object. Not without having it ; The cause of desire ; Passage à l'acte and acting out ; On a lack that is irreducible to the signifier ; Punctuations on desire -- Anxiety between jouissance and desire. Anxiety, signal of the real ; Aphorisms on love ; Woman, truer and more real ; Men's business -- The five forms of the object a. Buddha's eyelids ; The mouth and the eye ; The voice of Yahweh ; The evanescent Phallus ; What comes in through the ear ; Piaget's tap ; From anal to ideal ; On a circle that is irreducible to a point ; From the a to the names-of-the-father.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 074566041X
  • 9780745660417