The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions and the attraction of transgression, Lacan illuminates Freud's psychoanalytic work and its continued influence. Lacan explores the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocle's Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytic experience. His exploration leads us to startling insights on the consequence of man's relationship to desire and the conflicting judgments of ethics and analysis.


Author: Jacques-Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/01/1997
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780393316131
ISBN10: 0393316130
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
- Psychology | Movements | Behaviorism
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis