Against Understanding, Volume 2 : Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key (Paperback)

Contents. Preface. Acknowledgments. Commentary. On Clinical Practice. 1. Analysand and Analyst in the Global Economy, or Why Anyone in their Right Mind Would Pay for an Analysis. 2. What’s So Different about Lacan’s Approach to Psychoanalysis? 3. Fantasies and the Fundamental Fantasy: An Introduction. 4. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. 5. Why Diagnose? A Few Reflections on Diagnosis. On Reading Lacan. 6. An Introduction to Lacan’s Seminar XVIII: D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant. 7. Lacan on Personality from the 1930s to the 1950s. 8. An Introduction to "Kant with Sade". 9. Freud and Love on Love: A Preliminary Exploration. On Translation. 10. The Task of Translation. Cases. 11. In the Wake of Medea: A Case of Obsession from a Lacanian Perspective. 12. The Role of Semblance in "Identity" Construction. 13. The Freud Man and the Fundamental Fantasy. 14. Contours of Trauma. Critique. 15. Interview: Lacan in America (Loren Dent). 16. Interview: A Few Words with the Editors of MonoKL. 17. Violence in Psychoanalysis. References. Index.