Marc De Kesel is Senior Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sigi Jöttkandt is coeditor of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands.

• Introduction1. A Theory of the SubjectThe Object Relations Theory and Its Moral PremisesLacan’s Target: Maurice BouvetLacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the SubjectEthics and PhantasmIntroducing a Real Object2. Crucial ProblemsOne Ethical Demand versus AnotherA New Form of Guilt?A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?3. Aristotle RevisitedThe Interval between Aristotle and FreudAristotle and Freud against BenthamPleasure, Reality, and Logos4. An Intimately Distant "Thing""Das Ding"A Matter of DistanceHow Much Does a Thing Weigh?5. A Critique of Pure Practical ReasonKant’s Critique of MoralsLacan and the Critique of Practical ReasonThe Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"6. The Weight of EnjoymentPleasureSadeThe Commandment to Love Your NeighborAn Ethics of Singularity7. SublimationFrom Doom to DameAn "Object Relational" Concept of SublimationCourtly LoveCulture as SublimationSublimation and Ethics8. Radiant AntigoneAn Anamorphic Glance at TragedyThe Subject in the PictureDesire in the Picture9. The Ethics of PsychoanalysisThe Analytic TollMeasure without MeasureEpilogueNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex

Marc De Kesel is Senior Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sigi Jöttkandt is coeditor of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands.

• Introduction1. A Theory of the SubjectThe Object Relations Theory and Its Moral PremisesLacan’s Target: Maurice BouvetLacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the SubjectEthics and PhantasmIntroducing a Real Object2. Crucial ProblemsOne Ethical Demand versus AnotherA New Form of Guilt?A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?3. Aristotle RevisitedThe Interval between Aristotle and FreudAristotle and Freud against BenthamPleasure, Reality, and Logos4. An Intimately Distant "Thing""Das Ding"A Matter of DistanceHow Much Does a Thing Weigh?5. A Critique of Pure Practical ReasonKant’s Critique of MoralsLacan and the Critique of Practical ReasonThe Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"6. The Weight of EnjoymentPleasureSadeThe Commandment to Love Your NeighborAn Ethics of Singularity7. SublimationFrom Doom to DameAn "Object Relational" Concept of SublimationCourtly LoveCulture as SublimationSublimation and Ethics8. Radiant AntigoneAn Anamorphic Glance at TragedyThe Subject in the PictureDesire in the Picture9. The Ethics of PsychoanalysisThe Analytic TollMeasure without MeasureEpilogueNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex

Marc De Kesel is Senior Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sigi Jöttkandt is coeditor of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands.

• Introduction1. A Theory of the SubjectThe Object Relations Theory and Its Moral PremisesLacan’s Target: Maurice BouvetLacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the SubjectEthics and PhantasmIntroducing a Real Object2. Crucial ProblemsOne Ethical Demand versus AnotherA New Form of Guilt?A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?3. Aristotle RevisitedThe Interval between Aristotle and FreudAristotle and Freud against BenthamPleasure, Reality, and Logos4. An Intimately Distant "Thing""Das Ding"A Matter of DistanceHow Much Does a Thing Weigh?5. A Critique of Pure Practical ReasonKant’s Critique of MoralsLacan and the Critique of Practical ReasonThe Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"6. The Weight of EnjoymentPleasureSadeThe Commandment to Love Your NeighborAn Ethics of Singularity7. SublimationFrom Doom to DameAn "Object Relational" Concept of SublimationCourtly LoveCulture as SublimationSublimation and Ethics8. Radiant AntigoneAn Anamorphic Glance at TragedyThe Subject in the PictureDesire in the Picture9. The Ethics of PsychoanalysisThe Analytic TollMeasure without MeasureEpilogueNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex