Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason : Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Paperback)

Introduction 1|Lacan’s Ecrits Revisited: On Writing as Object of Desire 2|What Are Words Worth? Lacan and the Circulation of Money in the Psychoanalytic Economy 3|That Obscure Object of Psychoanalysis 4|The Sculptural Iconography of Feminine Jouissance: Lacan’s Reading of Bernini’s Saint Teresa in Ecstasy 5|Esprit de Corps, Work Transference and Dissolution: Lacan as an Organisational Theorist 6|Psychoanalysis as gai saber: Towards a New Episteme of Laughter 7|Once He Was a Poet: On Psychoanalysis as Poetry in Lacan’s Clinical Paradigm 8|Lacan’s Clinical Artistry: On Sublimation, Sublation and the Sublime 9|Lacan with Antigone: On Tragedy and Desire in the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index