The Graph of Desire : Using the Work of Jacques Lacan

This book gathers the lectures of the post-graduate course entitled -The Graph of Desire and the Psychoanalytic Clinic-, held in 1993 within the framework of the Updating Program on Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Post-Graduate Secretary, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires). Although the subject of the course was the graph of desire and its articulation with the psychoanalytical practice, the reader will find here that Lacan's article The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious has been intensively looked over, being paraphrased and quoted in almost every class of the course. Considering that the Spanish translation has some problems, certain terms and paragraphs from the original French version have been translated by the author, in order to try to understand what Lacan affirms. The recordings of the course lectures constitute the basis for this book; they have been barely modified, for their colloquial style will not interfere with the reading. The Graph Of Desire Is One Of The Principal Points Of Reference In Lacanian Psychoanalysis. In This Book The Graph Is Analyzed In Its Multiple Aspects And Relations. Step By Step, The Author Reveals And Considers Formulations From The Simplest To The Most Complex. The Treatment Of This Issue Does Not Deal Only With The Development And Explanation Of Its Logical, Mathematical And Topological Aspects But Also Goes Through The Psychoanalytical Theory And Practice. The Author Has Immersed Himself In Lacan's Text The Subversion Of The Subject And The Dialectic Of Desire In The Freudian Unconscious To Uncover And Bring This Fascinating Subject To Light.--jacket. Graph Of Desire And Topology -- Object A And Mathematical Graph And Nets Theory -- The Structure Of Language: Need, Demand And Desire -- Graph One -- Questions And Answers: The Impossible -- Neurosis And Psychosis -- Ideal (i) -- Ego (m) -- Ideal (i): Graph 2 -- Graph 3: The Question -- Desire And Fantasme: A Pathway (i) -- The Symptom -- Desire And Fantasme: A Pathway (ii) -- The Formula Of The Fantasme: Introduction To The Drive -- The Drive (i) -- The Drive (ii) -- S({u023a}): Being, Jouissance And Desire -- S({u023a}): Being (res), Jouissance And Desire (ii) -- The Castration Complex In Lacan's Teaching. Alfredo Eidelzstein ; Translated With Notes By Florencia F.c. Shanahan ; Translation Reviewed By Philip Malone ; General Editor, Florencia Eidelsztein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-281) And Index. Translated From The Spanish.