Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X (Seminar of Jacques Lacan

363 Pages·2014·13.64 MB·English

by  Jacques Lacan

Anxiety

First published in French as Le Seminaire livre X -L'angoisse © Editions du
Seuil, 2004
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
TO THE STRUCTURE OF ANXIETY
I. Anxiety in the Net of Signifiers 3
II. Anxiety, Sign of Desire 16
III. From the Cosmos to the Unheimliche 29
IV. Beyond Castration Anxiety 43
v. That Which Deceives 55
VI. That Which Deceives Not 69
REVISION
OF THE STATUS OF THE OBJECT
VII. Not Without Having It 85
VIII. The Cause of Desire 100
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IX. Passage l'acte and Acting-out 114
x. On a Lack that is Irreducible to the Signifier 131
XI. Punctuations on Desire 147
ANXIETY
BETWEEN JOUISSANCE AND DESIRE
XII. Anxiety, Signal of the Real 157
XIII. Aphorisms on Love 170
XIV. Woman, Truer and More Real 182
xv. Men's Business 197
THE FIVE FORMS
OF THE OBJECT a
XVI. Buddha's Eyelids 213
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XVII. The Mouth and the Eye 230
XVIII. The Voice of Yahweh 243
XIX. The Evanescent Phallus 256
xx. What Comes in Through the Ear 267
XXI. Piaget's Tap 279
XXII. From Anal to Ideal 294
XXIII. On a Circle that is Irreducible to a Point 310
XXIV. From the a to the Names-of-the-Father 324
Note to the Text 339
Notes 340
Index 343
BookX
Anxiety
1962-1963

INTRODUCTION TO
THE STRUCTURE OF
ANXIETY