Lacan : the unconscious reinvented / Colette Soler ; translated by Esther Faye and Susan Schwartz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Has Jacques Lacan's impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is ""structured like a language"" is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There was then the radically new thesis of the ""real unconscious"". Why this step?Searching for the Ariadne's thread that runs throughout Lacan's ever-evolving teaching, this book illuminates the questions implicit in each step, and sheds new light on his revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts. In tracing these, Colette Soler brings out their consequences for the clinic, and in particular,

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE UNCONSCIOUS, REAL -- ch. One Trajectory -- ch. Two Towards the Real -- ch. Three Lalangue, traumatic -- ch. Four From the transference towards the other unconscious -- ch. Five The royal road to the RUCS -- ch. Six The Borromean aleph -- ch. Seven The parletre -- pt. II ANALYSIS ORIENTED TOWARDS THE REAL -- ch. Eight The end pass -- ch. Nine The time that isn't logical -- ch. Ten Terminable analysis -- ch. Eleven Identification with the symptom or ... worse -- ch. Twelve The identity at the end, its aporias -- pt. III A RENEWED CLINIC -- ch. Thirteen The status of jouissances -- ch. Fourteen Symptom of the real unconscious -- ch. Fifteen The father and the Real -- ch. Sixteen Towards the father of the name -- ch. Seventeen Love and the Real -- pt. IV POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES -- ch. Eighteen Dissidence of the symptom? -- ch. Nineteen Psychoanalysis and capitalism -- ch. Twenty Malaise in psychoanalysis -- ch. Twenty-One What does the psychoanalyst want?

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