Lacan on Desire

Reading Seminar VI
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-76385-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

This companion to Lacan’s Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object , and the signifier of the lack in the Other as they are elaborated by Lacan. Bruce Fink draws on his extensive experience as a practicing analyst and as a leading translator of Lacan’s work (including Seminar VI), in this highly accessible exploration which includes both close textual analysis and illustrative clinical vignettes.

Seminar VI, , and Fink’s discussion of it here constitute a timely intervention for clinicians, for whom an engagement with desire is pivotal to the direction of the treatment, and for students and scholars interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, comparative literature, art, film, and social and political theory, for whom desire, fantasy, and object may be useful conceptual tools.

Combining rigorous analysis and a clear writing style, this guide provides an invaluable new resource.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fink, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bibliographical Note.- Preface.- PART I: THEORETICAL BACKDROP.- Chapter 1: What is Desire.- Chapter 2: Fantasy and the Object, or How to Prop Up One’s Desire.- Chapter 3: The Phallus as Loss.- PART II: ANALYZING DREAMS.- Chapter 4: His Father had Died but Didn’t Know It.- Chapter 5: The Dream Recounted by Ella Sharpe’s Patient.-Chapter 6: The Lacanian Object.- PART III: LACAN’S READING OF HAMLET.- Chapter 7: Introductory Considerations.- Chapter 8: The Signifier of the Lack in the Other.- Chapter 9: Questions that Arise from Lacan’s Reading of Hamlet.- PART IV: MAJOR CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE: PERVERSION, OBSESSION, HYSTERIA, AND PHOBIA.- Chapter 10: Perversion.- Chapter 11: The Fundamental Fantasy.- Chapter 12: Conclusions.- Afterword.- Appendix: Translator’s Notes to Seminar VI.- Bibliography of Lacan’s Seminars Cited.- References.-Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He has authored nine books on Lacan, as well as (2017). He has translated numerous works by Lacan into English, including , and Seminars VI, VIII, XVI, XVIII, and XX.