Law of Desire

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and Chair of the Freud Museum London, UK. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis, and, with Malcolm Quinn, Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology, alongside numerous papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

• Introduction.- 1. A New Ethical System.- 2. Lacan Reads Kant.- 3. Sade’s Kantian Maxim.- 4. Regarding the Pain of Others.- 5.Ineluctable Libertine Pleasures.- 6. The Sadean Fantasy.- 7. Surely, it is Just a Fantasy!.- 8. Sade’s Practical Reason.- 9. The Law Sustains Desire.- 10. Sade Against Kant.- 11. The Moral Principle of Desire.- 12. Desire and Happiness.- 13. Lacan Against Sade.- 14. Some More Effort .- Conclusion.