Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Translator’s Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Prolegomenon 11
6. Part I. The Semiotic and the Symbolic
7. 1. The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation 17
8. 2. The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives 23
9. 3. Husserl’s Hyletic Meaning: A Natural Thesis Commanded by the Judging Subject 30
10. 4. Hjelmslev’s Presupposed Meaning 37
11. 5. The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary 42
12. 6. The Mirror and Castration Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier 45
13. 7. Frege’s Notion of Signification: Enunciation and Denotation 51
14. 8. Breaching the Thetic: Mimesis 56
15. 9. The Unstable Symbolic Substitutions in the Symbolic: Fetishism 61
16. 10. The Signifying Process 67
17. 11. Poetry That is Not a Form of Murder 71
18. 12. Genotext and Phenotext 84
19. 13. Four Signifying Practices 88
20. Part II. Negativity: Rejection
21. 14. The Fourth “Term” of the Dialectic 105
22. 15. Independent and Subjugated “Force” in Hegel 112
23. 16. Negativity as Transversal to Thetic Judgment 115
24. 17. “Kinesis,” “Cura,” “Desire” 125
25. 18. Humanitarian Desire 131
26. 19. Non-Contradiction: Neutral Peace 139
27. 20. Freud’s Notion of Expulsion: Rejection 146
28. Part III. Heterogeneity
29. 21. The Dichotomy and Heteronomy of Drives 165
30. 22. Facilitation, Stasis, and the Thetic Moment 171
31. 23. The Homological Economy of the Representamen 175
32. 24. Through the Principle of Language 178
33. 25. Skepticism and Nihilism in Hegel and in the Text 182
34. Part IV. Practice
35. 26. Experience Is Not Practice 193
36. 27. The Atomistic Subject of Practice in Marxism 198
37. 28. Calling Back Rupture Within Practice: Experience-in-Practice 202
38. 29. The Text as Practice, Distinct from Transference Discourse 208
39. 30. The Second Overturning of the Dialectic: After Political Economy, Aesthetics 214
40. 31. Maldoror and Poems: Laughter as Practice 217
41. 32. The Expenditure of a Logical Conclusion: Igitur 226
42. Notes 235
43. Index 281