Lacanian Coordinates From the Logic of the Signifier to the Paradoxes of Guilt and Desire

Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching, from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject, to the drive and object a, qua object a, the paradoxes of guilt, and finally to the desire of the Other, love, and femininity - the themes which are explored and developed in the forthcoming second volume of Lacanian Coordinates. This book explores the points of Lacanian orientation that lead us to the particularity of the subject, and considers whether we find them not solely in the discourse of the universal, to which religion, science and philosophy testify, but also in the analytic experience itself. Psychoanalysis creates conditions for an encounter with an analyst and with words forgotten, neglected, underestimated, yet also bursting with meaning and surprises. Each chapter contributes to this subjective realisation, taking as reference the clinic, the voice of an analysand, and everyday discourse.

The debris and the new discoveries , New coordinates of psychoanalysis , Of the truths and lies of logos: Lacan meets Heidegger , The signifier, the letter, the voice, and the subject of certainty , Two sides of repetition , The drive and its satisfactions , Superego and the logic of guilt

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Bogdan Wolf