7 Object (a): Cause of Desire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the 30th Anniversary Edition xi
4. Preface xv
5. Part One STRUCTURE: ALIENATION AND THE OTHER
6. 1 Language and Otherness 3
7. 2 The Nature of Unconscious Thought, or How the Other Half "Thinks" 14
8. 3 The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real 24
9. Part Two THE LACANIAN SUBJECT
10. 4 The Lacanian Subject 35
11. 5 The Subject and the Other's Desire 49
12. 6 Metaphor and the Precipitation of Subjectivity 69
13. Part Three THE LACANIAN OBJECT: LOVE, DESIRE, JOUISSANCE
14. 7 Object (a): Cause of Desire 83
15. 8 There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship 98
16. Part Four THE STATUS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE
17. 9 The Four Discourses 129
18. 10 Psychoanalysis and Science 138
19. Afterword 147
20. Appendix 1 The Language of the Unconscious 153
21. Appendix 2 Stalking the Cause 165
22. Glossary of Lacanian Symbols 173
23. Acknowledgments 175
24. Notes 177
25. Bibliography 207
26. Index 213
27. Errata 220