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Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma, historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays range from investigations of particular art forms such as music and tragedy to clinical studies of melancholia, depression, anxiety, and other somatic phenomena that have a symbolic or psychic dimension. As a whole, the book explores the breakdown of meaning and the failure of social and political structures, which Lacan addresses through the category of the Real, and it offers English-speaking readers a variety of new perspectives on Lacan and psychoanalysis.
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Part I: Cultural
Introduction
1. The Object of Jouissance in Music
Sebastian Leikert
2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile
Peter Widmer
3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt?
Raymond Borens
4. Identification in the Name of Lolita
Joachim Saalfrank
5. The Beauty behind the Window Shutters
August Ruhs
Part II: Sexual
Introduction
6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference
Rudolph Bernet
7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's Fold
Johannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli
8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman
Anne Juranville
9. Symbolic Mother—Real Father
Regula Schindler
Part III: Clinical
Introduction
10. "But It, the World... It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression
Christian Klaui
11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its Consequences
Monique David-Menard
12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto
Elisabeth Widmer
13. Demand and Wish
Lucien Israel
14. Psychosis and Names
Andre Michels
Part IV: Philosophical
Introduction
15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud
Samuel Weber
16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Hans-Dieter Gondek
17. Sacrifice and the Law
Bernard Baas
18. Freud and Democracy
Peter Widmer
19. The Lacanian Thing
Alain Juranville
Contributors
Index