Table of Contents

Translator’s Note

Abbreviations

The Freudian structures of wit

I. The Famillionaire

II. The Fat-millionaire

III. The Miglionaire

IV. The Golden Calf

V. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense

VI. Whoah, Neddy!

VII. Une Femme de Non-Recevoir, or : A Flat Refusal

THE LOGIC OF CASTRATION

VIII. Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father

IX. The Paternal Metaphor

X. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (I)

XI. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (II)

XII. From Image to Signifier Ð in Pleasure and in Reality

XIII. Fantasy, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PHALLUS

XIV. Desire and Jouissance

XV. The Girl and the Phallus

XVI. Insignias of the Ideal

XVII. The Formulas of Desire

XVIII. Symptoms and Their Masks

XIX. Signifier, Bar and Phallus

The dialectic of desire and demand in the clinical study and treatment of the neuroses

XX. The Dream by the Butcher’s Beautiful Wife

XXI. The ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ Dreams

XXII. The Other’s Desire

XXIII. The Obsessional and his Desire

XXIV. Transference and Suggestion

XXV. The Signification of the Phallus in the Treatment

XXVI. The Circuits of Desire

XXVII. Exiting via the Symptom

XXVIII. You Are the One You Hate

APPENDICES

The Graph of Desire

Explanation of the Schemas

Editor’s Note

Translator’s Endnotes

Index

About the Author

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth–century's most influential thinkers. His many works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and the many other volumes of The Seminar.