Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics

Willy Apollon is a psychoanalyst at GIFRIC in Quebec. Richard Feldstein is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He is co-editor of Reading Sminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English, also published by SUNY Press.

"What I like most about this book is its demonstration of the importance and breadth of Lacan's thought. These papers take up Lacan's invitation to engage his texts as he did Freud's, not out of passive discipleship but out of a shared conviction of the consequences of the work of psychoanalysis, that after Freud nothing is quite the same." — Michael Payne"The collection demonstrates the relevance and potential of Lacanian theory beyond specifically psychoanalytic concerns to the wider field of cultural studies. The essays dealing with ideology break ground in their approach to political issues. The collection, taken together, stimulates thought." — Janet Thormann Mackintosh

• Acknowledgments Introduction I Richard Feldstein Introduction II Willy Apollon the politics of desire The Fetish of the Party Slavoj Zizek A Lasting Heresy, the Failure of Political Desire Willy Apollon Subject of the Gaze for Another Gaze Richard Feldstein jouissance, desire, and the law Facing Fascism: A Feminine Politics of Jouissance Juliet Flower MacCannell A Verdict on the Paternal Function: Law, the Paternal Metaphor, and Paternity Law Judith Roof the politics of mastery The Discourse of the MasterEllie Ragland literary representation Othello's Lost Handkerchief: Where Psychoanalysis Finds Itself Elizabeth J. Bellamy Reading Hamlet with Lacan Bruce Fink Kundera and Lacan: Drive, Desire, and Oneiric Narration Maire Jaanus Fatal Conjunctions: Gendering Representations of Death Elisabeth Bronfen graphic representation Dali and Lacan: Painting the Imaginary Landscapes Hanjo Berressem musical representation Orpheus and Eurydice: Muses of Music Peter Widmer filmic representation Aliens and the Psychotic Experience Danielle Bergeron Aliens or Staging the Trauma Lucie Cantin cross-genre representation Lost Objects: Duras's Minimalist Cinema of RemembranceCatherine Portuges Index