This companion to Lacan’s Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object a, and the signifier of the lack in the Other as they are elaborated by Lacan. Bruce Fink draws on his extensive experience as a practicing analyst and as a leading translator of Lacan’s work (including Seminar VI), in this highly accessible exploration which includes both close textual analysis and illustrative clinical vignettes.
Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation, and Fink’s discussion of it here constitute a timely intervention for clinicians, for whom an engagement with desire is pivotal to the direction of the treatment, and for students and scholars interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, comparative literature, art, film, and social and political theory, for whom desire, fantasy, and object a may be useful conceptual tools.
Combining rigorous analysis and a clear writing style, this guide provides an invaluable new resource.
Tabella dei contenuti
Bibliographical Note.- Preface.- PART I: THEORETICAL BACKDROP.- Chapter 1: What is Desire.- Chapter 2: Fantasy and the Object, or How to Prop Up One’s Desire.- Chapter 3: The Phallus as Loss.- PART II: ANALYZING DREAMS.- Chapter 4: His Father had Died but Didn’t Know It.- Chapter 5: The Dream Recounted by Ella Sharpe’s Patient.-Chapter 6: The Lacanian Object.- PART III: LACAN’S READING OF HAMLET.- Chapter 7: Introductory Considerations.- Chapter 8: The Signifier of the Lack in the Other.- Chapter 9: Questions that Arise from Lacan’s Reading of Hamlet.- PART IV: MAJOR CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE: PERVERSION, OBSESSION, HYSTERIA, AND PHOBIA.- Chapter 10: Perversion.- Chapter 11: The Fundamental Fantasy.- Chapter 12: Conclusions.- Afterword.- Appendix: Translator’s Notes to Seminar VI.- Bibliography of Lacan’s Seminars Cited.- References.-Index.
Circa l’autore
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He has authored nine books on Lacan, as well as A Clinical Introduction to Freud (2017). He has translated numerous works by Lacan into English, including Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, and Seminars VI, VIII, XVI, XVIII, and XX.
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