| Foreword | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview | p. xxi |
| Introduction: Freud's Copernican Revolution | p. xxvii |
| The Primacy of the Symbolic and the Unconcious | p. 1 |
| Freud and Lacan on the Unconscious and Language | p. 3 |
| A Few General Remarks on Lacan's Theory of Language | p. 7 |
| The Elementary Cell of the Graph of Desire: The Symbolic and the Real | p. 20 |
| The Body, Language, and the Unconscious | p. 27 |
| The Subject of the Unconscious | p. 35 |
| The Subject of the Enunciation and the Subject of the Statement | p. 37 |
| The Subversion of the Subject | p. 42 |
| The Subject as Discontinuity in the Real | p. 46 |
| Wo Es war, soll Ich werden | p. 52 |
| From the First to the Second Version of the Graph of Desire | p. 59 |
| Introduction | p. 61 |
| The Other in the Second Version of the Graph of Desire | p. 62 |
| The Subject and the Other | p. 70 |
| The Other as "Witness" | p. 75 |
| The Symbolic and the Imaginary | p. 79 |
| The Imaginary: General Remarks | p. 81 |
| The Ideal Ego and the Ego-Ideal | p. 89 |
| Language, the Unconscious, and Desire | p. 101 |
| Introduction | p. 103 |
| Beyond Need and Demand: Desire | p. 104 |
| Desire and the Law: The Dialectic of Desire | p. 112 |
| Further Characterization of Desire: The Transitional Object | p. 119 |
| The Unconscious Is the Discourse of the Other | p. 123 |
| The Metapsychological Significance of the Phantasy and of the Object a | p. 127 |
| The Third Version of the Graph of Desire | p. 129 |
| The Significance of the Phantasy | p. 133 |
| The Significance of the Object a | p. 140 |
| The Object a and Lacan's Critique of the Psychoanalytic Tradition | p. 152 |
| The Phantasy, the Object a, and Subjectivity: The Essentially Bodily Significance of Lack | p. 158 |
| The Truth of the Unconscious: S(O), the Castration Complex, and the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father | p. 163 |
| The Final Version of the Graph | p. 165 |
| The Significance of S(O) | p. 170 |
| The Castration Complex in Freud | p. 177 |
| The Imaginary Phallus | p. 180 |
| The Father as Symbolic Third | p. 188 |
| The Symbolic Father Is the "Dead" Father: Totem and Taboo | p. 191 |
| The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father | p. 199 |
| The Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father and Symbolic Castration | p. 202 |
| The Primacy of the Phallus, Sexuality, and the Unconscious | p. 207 |
| The Phallus, Castration, and the Problem of Sexuation | p. 211 |
| The Impossible Jouissance: Elements of a Structural Psychopathology | p. 217 |
| Introduction: The Jouissance of the Other and Pathology | p. 219 |
| The Jouissance of the Other, the Metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father, and Psychosis | p. 228 |
| The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex | p. 233 |
| Perversion | p. 238 |
| Phobia | p. 246 |
| Neurosis: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis | p. 247 |
| Jouissance, the Law, and the Pleasure Principle | p. 271 |
| Ne pas ceder sur son desir: Towards a Dialectic of Desire? | p. 278 |
| Conclusion: The Primacy of Sexuality, or Against Adaptation | p. 283 |
| References | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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