David Pettigrew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul has taught French at Yale University and Philosophy at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Both co-translated The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction PART I. LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY The Concept of the Subject of the Unconscious Juan-David NasioThe Order of the Real.' Nietzsche and Lacan Babette BabichLacan and Merleau-Ponty: The Confrontation of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology James PhillipsPART II. LACAN AND SCIENCE The Epistemological Status of Lacan's Mathematical Paradigms Joël DorSociology Before Linguistics: Lacan's Debt to Durkheim Stephen MichelmanToward a New Alliance between Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Judith Feher GurewichPART III. LACAN, AESTHETICS, AND LITERATURE The Third Generation of Desire William RichardsonLacan: The Poetic Unconscious David PettigrewLacan and Modernism: Representation and Its Vicissitudes Thomas BrockelmanPART IV. THE QUESTION OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER Sexuality in Neurosis and Psychosis: Two Letters from Freud to Jung Moustapha SafouanJocelyn, a Story of the Soul Cora MonroeQueering the Phallus Debra BergoftenPART V. PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE The Oedipus Problem in Freud and Lacan Mikkel Borch-JacobsenLacan and Schatzman: Reflections on the Concept of "Paternal Metaphor" Wilfried Ver EeckeThe Psychical Meaning of Life and Death: Reflections on the Lacanian Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Richard BoothbyA Semiotic Correlate of Psychotic States John MullerContributors Index

The book features four prominent French Lacanians: Juan-David Nasio, Joel Dor, Moustapha Safouan, and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Essays by two of them, Nasio and Dor, appear here in English for the first time. Additionally, the volume features authors who have established and continue to guide Lacanian studies in the United States, and it introduces emerging voices in Lacanian studies.