Markos Zafiropoulos is a psychoanalyst and a sociologist. He is Director of Studies at the CNRS Centre for Research in Psychoanalysis and Social Practises in Paris and author of several acclaimed books, including 'Tristesse dans la Modernite' and 'Lacan et les Sciences Sociales: le Declin du Pere'.

Contents:NOTE TO THE READER AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION The young LacanCHAPTER ONE The transcendence of the imaginary by the symbolic or the mirror stage and the symbolic function Freud's technique, transference from Lacan to Freud, and the post-Freudians' resistance to Freud The effectiveness of symbols: From Anna Freud to Claude Levi-Strauss From the mirror stage to the inverted bouquetCHAPTER TWO The subject receives from the Other his own message in an inverted form: An investigation Presentation on Transference (1951) "The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis" 1953 The Rome Report: "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" or testifying to a pass (September 1953)CHAPTER THREE The name of the father, psychosis and phobia From the Rat Man to little Hans: The question of the Name-of-the-Father The institutional forms of the zero value Object Relations: Book IV of the Seminar, 1956-1957CONCLUSION The doxa: Its ideals and the repression of Levi-Strauss Louis Althusser's point of view The essential: Lacan's point of view Thanks to Levi-StraussPOSTLUDE Making the world incomplete The lack in the other Lacan as a critic of Levi-Strauss The sublime excommunicantBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

• NOTE TO THE READER AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION * The young Lacan CHAPTER ONE * The transcendence of the imaginary by the symbolic or the mirror stage and the symbolic function * Freud's technique, transference from Lacan to Freud, and the post-Freudians' resistance to Freud * The effectiveness of symbols: From Anna Freud to Claude Levi-Strauss * From the mirror stage to the inverted bouquet CHAPTER TWO * The subject receives from the Other his own message in an inverted form: An investigation * Presentation on Transference (1951) * The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in PsychoanalysisA" * 1953 * The Rome Report: The Function and Field of Speech and Language in PsychoanalysisA" or testifying to a pass (September 1953) CHAPTER THREE * The name of the father, psychosis and phobia * From the Rat Man to little Hans: The question of the Name-of-the-Father * The institutional forms of the zero value * Object Relations: Book IV of the Seminar, 1956-1957 CONCLUSION * The doxa: Its ideals and the repression of Levi-Strauss * Louis Althusser's point of view * The essential: Lacan's point of view * Thanks to Levi-Strauss POSTLUDE * Making the world incomplete * The lack in the other * Lacan as a critic of Levi-Strauss * The sublime excommunicant BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX