Anxiety Between Desire and the Body : What Lacan Says in Seminar X

This Book Provides A Unique Analysis Of Lacan's Conception Of Anxiety As Presented In One Of His Most Fascinating Seminars, Seminar X. The Seminar Took Place In The Lead Up To Lacan's Infamous Excommunication From The Ipa. Revisiting Freud's Work On The Topic, Lacan Conceives Anxiety In An Anxiety Chart Which Includes Adjacent Terms Such As Inhibition, Embarrassment, And Turmoil. He Sees Desire As The Kernel Of Anxiety, Before Turning Attention To The Body. Anxiety Between Desire And The Body: What Lacan Says In Seminar X Is Written From The Perspective Of The Analytical Experience, Its Logic, And Its Surprising Discoveries. It Will Be Of Great Interest To Students Of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, As Well As Philosophers Interested In Lacan's Work--back Cover. To Begin: Between Anxiety And Love -- Anxiety Chart -- The Cause Of Desire And The Object A -- Perverse Solutions -- Revision Of Countertransference -- Revision Of Countertransference -- Signs Of Love ; Women Know Best -- Phenomena Of The Speaking Body -- The Constitution Of The Object A -- The Phallus And The Silent Voice -- Psychoanalytic Clinic : Anxiety And The Obsessional Neurosis. Bogdan Wolf. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 191-194) And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Dedication 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 1. To begin – between anxiety and love 10 The politics of Lacan’s Seminar X: why anxiety? 10 Desire not without anxiety 11 Beyond castration anxiety 14 Object a and the body 18 Love and trauma 21 2. Anxiety chart 27 Being, the Nothing and the void 27 Anxiety is not the signifier 30 Anxiety between difficulty and movement 33 Four and a half formulas of desire 36 Desire and the object a 39 3. The cause of desire and the object a 42 What am I for the Other? 42 Reality and cause 45 Passage to the act and acting-out 49 Transference as an acting-out 53 Back to the cause of desire 56 4. “Perverse Solutions” 59 Fetish 59 From castration to privation 62 Being, having, and not without 65 The object a in the neurotic’s fantasy 66 The postiche and the demand as the object a 70 Pervert’s fantasy and the cynic 73 An introduction to masochism 77 5. Revision of countertransference (1) 80 The masochist and his aim 80 Lacan’s wager and the requited love 84 Lucia Tower, her patients, their wives, and the sex of the analyst 86 From the roots of the concept of countertransference to the anxiety of the analyst 90 Countertransference as humanism and the Lacanian analyst 92 6. Revision of countertransference (2) 96 Margaret Little and the analyst’s identification with the analysand 96 “Can’t you see I sacrifice myself for you?” 97 Man’s and woman’s fantasies, and Don Juan 101 Countertransference and the object a: what is the psychoanalyst? 104 The logic of mourning 107 “Total response” and the analyst’s anxiety 110 The Lacanian session as disinfinitised 112 7. Signs of love – women know best 115 What remains of countertransference 115 Anxiety: the median between jouissance and desire 118 The object a: from the nameless to love 121 The woman between anxiety and love 124 “I desire you even if I don’t know it” 126 How to speak to the one I love? 129 Women, men, the orgasm, and the lack 130 8. Phenomena of the speaking body 134 Desire according to the sexes 134 The void as constitutive of desire 136 “Desire is an illusion” 138 Lacan’s anatomy – the cut and the lips 140 Between the mamma and the object breast 141 Dracula for ever: the function of the tongue 144 The double function of the object a and the anxiety-point 145 Object breath 147 9. The constitution of the object a 150 From the Freudian coitus . . . 150 . . . to the Lacanian orgasm 154 The oral demand and desire 155 The anal, the phallic, and the scopic 158 “Pure desire” or the obsessional’s fantasy? 163 Superego as the object a 165 Subjectivation according to the hole: the mouth, the anus, and breath 166 Luther 169 10. The phallus and the silent voice 172 The voice of Shofar 172 The eye and the gaze 176 The myth of patricide: in the beginning was the voice 178 Deaf composer and the ear of the analyst 180 The logic of exclusion 183 11. Psychoanalytic clinic – anxiety and the obsessional neurosis 187 Anxiety for ever after and the turmoil 187 An introduction to obsessional neurosis 190 Not knowing and not being able to 192 In the scopic field 195 Mourning and melancholia: where is the father? 197 Bibliography 200 Index 204 This book on Lacan and anxiety provides a unique study of one Lacan's most fascinating seminars, Seminar X, where Lacan gives testimony to the decade of teaching which preceded his infamous excommunication from the IPA.