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A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Socie'te' Francaise de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.
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THE SEMIN AR OF JACQUES LACAN BOOK II By Jacques Lacan ECRITS: A SELECTION FEMININE SEXUAUTY TELEVISION THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN BOOK I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 BOOK II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 BOOK III: The Psychoses , 1955-1956 BOOK VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960 BOOK XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Book XX: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-1973 (Encore) THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller BOOK II The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955 TRANSLATED BY Sylvana Tomaselli WITH NOTES B Y John Forrester W,W'NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON Originally published in French as Le Seminaire. Livre II. Le moi dans la theorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse, 1954-1955 by Les Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1978 and © Les Editions du Seuil1978 English translation © Cambridge University Press 1988 First American edition 1988 First published as a Norton paperback 1991 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lacan,Jacque� 1901The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis,1954-1955. (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan; bk. 2) Thanslation of: Le moi dans la theorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Ego (Psychology) 2. Psychoanalysis. 3. Freud,Sigmund,1856-1939. Jacques,1901- . I. Title. II. Series: Lacan, Seminaire de Jacques Lacan. English; bk. 2. BF173.L14613 bk. 2 150.19'5 s [BFI75.5.E35] 87-23971 [150.19'52] ISBN 0-393-30709-3 w:w. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y. 10110 w:w. Norton & Company Ltd.,10 Coptic Street,London WClA IPU Printed in the United States of America 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 CONTENTS page Translators' note Acknowledgements Abbreviations vil ix x INTRODUCTION I Psychology and metapsychology II Knowledge, truth, opinion 3 l3 B EY ON D T H E PL E A S U R E P R IN C I PL E , R E P E T I T I O N 27 III The symbolic universe IV A materialist definition of the phenomenon of V Homeostasis and insistence S3 VI Freud, Hegel and the machine 64 VII The circuit consciousness 40 77 T H E F R E U D I A N S C H E M A T A OF T H E P S Y C H I C APPARATUS VIII Introduction to the IX Play of writings X Entwurf From the Entwurf to the 93 102 Traumdeutung 114 XI Censorship is not resistance XII The difficulties of regression l34 XIII The dream of Irma's injection 146 XIV The dream of Irma's injection (conclusion) 161 123 v vi Contents BEY O N D TH E I M A G I N A RY , TH E SY M B OL I C OR F R O M THE L IT TL E T O TH E B I G OTH E R XV Odd or even? Beyond intersubjectivity XVI The Purloined Letter XVII Some questions for the t