Eros and Ethics : Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII

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Pub. Date: 2009-05-07
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

A comprehensive examination of Lacan's seminar on ethics.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
A Theory of the Subjectp. 11
The Object Relations Theory and Its Moral Premisesp. 13
Lacan's Target: Maurice Bouvetp. 16
Lacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the Subjectp. 20
Ethics and Phantasmp. 34
Introducing a Real Objectp. 38
Crucial Problemsp. 47
One Ethical Demand versus Anotherp. 48
A New Form of Guilt?p. 52
A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?p. 54
Aristotle Revisitedp. 57
The Interval between Aristotle and Freudp. 57
Aristotle and Freud against Benthamp. 66
Pleasure, Reality, and Logosp. 72
An Intimately Distant "Thing"p. 83
"Das Ding"p. 84
A Matter of Distancep. 90
How Much Does a Thing Weigh?p. 98
A Critique of Pure Practical Reasonp. 105
Kant's Critique of Moralsp. 107
Lacan and the Critique of Practical Reasonp. 109
The Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"p. 113
The Weight of Enjoymentp. 121
Pleasurep. 121
Sadep. 131
The Commandment to Love Your Neighborp. 140
An Ethics of Singularityp. 152
Sublimationp. 163
From Doom to Damep. 163
An "Object Relational" Concept of Sublimationp. 167
Courtly Lovep. 175
Culture as Sublimationp. 183
Sublimation and Ethicsp. 190
Radiant Antigonep. 205
An Anamorphic Glance at Tragedyp. 205
The Subject in the Picturep. 212
Desire in the Picturep. 225
The Ethics of Psychoanalysisp. 249
The Analytic Tollp. 250
Measure without Measurep. 256
Epiloguep. 269
Notesp. 275
Abbreviationsp. 327
Bibliographyp. 329
Indexp. 341
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