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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.
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ISBN 0-393-30709-3
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CONTENTS
page Translators' note Acknowledgements Abbreviations
vil ix x
INTRODUCTION I
Psychology and metapsychology
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Knowledge, truth, opinion
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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
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The symbolic universe
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A materialist definition of the phenomenon of
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Homeostasis and insistence
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Freud, Hegel and the machine
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The circuit
consciousness
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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
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Play of writings
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Entwurf
From the Entwurf to the
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Traumdeutung
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XI
Censorship is not resistance
XII
The difficulties of regression
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The dream of Irma's injection
146
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The dream of Irma's injection (conclusion)
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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
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The Purloined Letter
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Some questions for the t