Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE OF ANXIETY

I. Anxiety in the Net of Signifiers

II. Anxiety, Sign of Desire

III. From the Cosmos to the Unheimlich

IV. Beyond Castration Anxiety

V. That Which Deceives

VI. That Which Deceives Not

REVISION OF THE STATUS OF THE OBJECT

VII. Not Without Having It

VIII. The Cause of Desire

IX. Passage à l'acte and Acting-Out

X. On a Lack that is Irreducible to the Signifier

XI. Punctuations on Desire

ANXIETY BETWEEN JOUISSANCE AND DESIRE

XII. Anxiety, Signal of the Real

XIII. Aphorisms on Love

XIV. Woman, Truer and More Real

XV. Men’s Business

THE FIVE FORMS OF THE OBJECT

XVI. Buddha's Eyelids

XVII. The Mouth and the Eye

XVIII. The Voice of Yahweh

XIX. The Evanescent Phallus

XX. What Comes in Through the Ear

XXI. Piaget's Tap

XXII. From Anal to Ideal

XXIII. On a Circle that is Irreducible to a Point

XXIV. From the a to the Names-of-the-Father

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About the Author

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth-century'smost influential thinkers. His many works include Ecrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts ofPsychoanalysis and the many other volumes of TheSeminar.

Reviews

"Despite the extraordinary range and reach of his work, anxietyis really Lacan s subject. In this book - which is among themost remarkable psychoanalytic and philosophical works of our time- Lacan shows us how much more there may be to say about thisfundamental experience that paralyses speech and so immobilisespeople s lives."Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer