Contents:
chapter 1 Introduction. What is psychoanalysis? What have images got to do with
it? What does the ego do?
Chapter 2 What has language got to do with psychoanalysis? What did Lacan
mean when he said that 'the unconscious is structured like a language'?
Chapter 3 Ixjcan's theory of 'the real' as the 'impossible to say' that always returns.
Chapter 4 'Jouissance' or sexual enjoyment and desire. Is sexual enjoyment some
thing that only happens in intercourse? How ore 'need', 'demand' and
'desire' differentiated?
Chapter 5 Objects and their subject.
Chapter 6 The Four Discourses: four ways of speaking and being.
Chapter 7 Overview of psychopothology: focus on perversion, hysteria and obses
sional neurosis.
Chapter 8 What is psychosis?
Chapter 9 What is feminine sexuality? What does it mean to be a woman?
Chapter 10 What is topology? and: What does it hove to do with time? Why do
Lacanians use variable length sessions?
Chapter 11 What is the good of psychoanalysis? and: What is the meaning of life?
Chapter 12 Review.
GLOSSARY
bibliography by chapter with suggestions for further reading
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