The graph of desire : using the work of Jacques Lacan / Alfredo Eidelzstein ; translated with notes by Florencia F.C. Shanahan ; translation reviewed by Philip Malone ; general editor, Florencia Eidelsztein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Spanish, some text from French.

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(Ⱥ): Being, jouissance and desire -- S(Ⱥ): "Being (Res), jouissance and desire" (II) -- The castration complex in Lacan's teaching.

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.

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