Table of Contents

Introduction Suzanne Barnard Knowledge and Jouissance Bruce Fink Hysteria in Scientific Discourse Colette Soler The Real of Sexual Difference Slavoj Zizek "Feminine Conditions of Jouissance" Genevieve Morel Love Anxieties Renata Salecl What Does the Unconscious Know about Women? Colette Soler Lacan's Answer to the Classical Mind/Body Deadlock: Retracing Freud's Beyond Paul Verhaeghe The Ontological Status of Lacan's Mathematical Paradigms Andrew Cutrofello Tongues of Angels: Feminine Structure and Other Jouissance Suzanne Barnard Contributors Index

About the Author

Suzanne Barnard is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, a clinical psychologist, and an experimental media artist. Bruce Fink is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a Lacanian psychoanalyst. He is the author of several books on Lacan, and coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Maire Jaanus) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. He has also translated Lacan's Seminar XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality.

Reviews

"This collection will be essential to the reading of Seminar XX in English." - Kareen Ror Malone, coeditor of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious "Lacan's controversial and important work, only recently translated into English, now receives sustained commentary by a range of French and American voices. A comprehensive, focused collection." - Charles Shepherdson, author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis