Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Vol. III: Society, Politics, Ideology

The attempt to coordinate a Marxist and a Freudian criticism confronts but as it were explicitly, thematically articulated in the form of a problem a dilemma that is in reality inherent in all psychoanalytic criticism as such that of the insertion of the subject, or, in a different terminology, the difficulty of providing mediations between social phenomena and what must be called private, rather than even merely individual, facts. CONTENTS 3 INTRODUCTION 8 28 IMAGINARY AND SYMBOLICIN LACAN 10 29 FREUD AND LACAN 51 30 "I SHALL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT" 70 31 THE FREUDIAN SUBJECT 89 32 THE SUBJECT AND THE SYMBOLIC ORDER 109 33 FETISH. AN EROTICS OF CULTURE 150 34 FREUD'S MOSES AND THE ETHICS OF NOMOTROPIC DESIRE 192 35 THE CASE OF POLYPHEMUS, OR, A MONSTER AND ITS MOTHER 233 36 AN UTTERLY DARK SPOT 259 37 ENCIRCLING THE POLITICAL 281 38 WHY DO EMPTY SIGNIFIERS MATTER TO POLITICS? 312 39 LACLAU WITH LACAN 321 40 CHE VUOI? 345 41 NEGATION AND ITS RELIABILITIES 383 42 IS OEDIPUS ON-LINE? 401 Presents a selection of texts covering the entire scope of the Lacan debate, focusing on four areas of Lacan's influence--psychoanalytic theory and practice; philosophy; society, politics, and ideology; and culture.