After Lacan

Willy Apollon , Danielle Bergeron , and Lucie Cantin are Training Analysts at Groupe Interdisciplinaire Freudien de Recherches et d'Interventions Cliniques et Culturelles (Gifric). Apollon is the coeditor (with Richard Feldstein) of Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics, also published by SUNY Press. Robert Hughes is Assistant Professor of English at Augusta State University. Kareen Ror Malone is Professor of Psychology at State University of West Georgia and coeditor (with Stephen R. Friedlander) of The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists, also published by SUNY Press.

"Although this is a dense book, and difficult reading for one not well versed in the language of Lacanian thought, it is also a very rich clinical book, well worth the investment of wading through the language. If one is willing to immerse one's self in the language, and through this language engage with the conceptualizations, one then encounters the very rich clinical vignettes in ways that vitally enliven and illuminate this very difficult work we do." — The American Journal of Psychoanalysis"An increasing number of clinicians find themselves interested in Lacan but do not have much clinical literature to see how the theory can be applied beyond the academy and into their own consulting rooms. This book addresses that lack. It is one of the best I have read and certainly the most complete in terms of including clinical examples of adequate length and sophistication." — Mardy S. Ireland, member of the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California"Case histories hold an inherent fascination, I think, and in this book they are no exception. They offer a concrete way of grasping the concepts, but they also give a sense of, and a feeling for, the suffering individual. After Lacan shows how suffering is alleviated by the treatment described. In itself, this would suffice to justify reading on. But the conceptual clarity and the elegance of the exposition equally solicit the reader's continued attention. This is a book that many have been waiting for." — Juliet Flower MacCannell, author of Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious and The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The Dialectic of Theory and Clinic Robert Hughes and Kareen Ror Malone Chapter 1: The Trauma of Language Lucie Cantin Chapter 2: The Jouissance of the Other and the Sexual Division in Psychoanalysis Willy Apollon Chapter 3: The Signifier Danielle Bergeron Chapter 4: The Work of the Dream and Jouissance in Treatment of the Psychotic Danielle Bergeron Chapter 5: From Delusion to Dream Lucie Cantin Chapter 6: The Letter of the Body Willy Apollon Chapter 7: The Symptom Willy Apollon Chapter 8: From Symptom to Fantasy Willy Apollon Chapter 9: Perverse Features and the Future of the Drive in Obsessional Neurosis Danielle Bergeron Chapter 10: Perversion and Hysteria Lucie Cantin Chapter 11: The Fate of Jouissance in the Pervert-Hysteric Couple Lucie Cantin Chapter 12: Violence in Works of Art, or, Mishima, from the Pen to the SwordDanielle Bergeron List of Contributors Index