Graph of Desire

Alfredo Eidelszstein has been practicing psychoanalysis for the last twenty-seven years. He has also taught psychoanalysis as a subject, nationally and internationally, for the last twenty years. Since 1992, he has published many titles in Spanish in the field of the mathematical formalization of Jacques Lacan's work and, particularly, 'the graph of desire.' He is a member of the Analytic Society of Buenos Aires, the Apertura Psychoanalytic Society of La Plata, the Apertura Buenos Aires - Psychoanalytic Society, and Coordinator of the Argentinian Chapter of the The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses

• A Selection from the ContentsGraph of Desire and TopologyThe structure of language.Object a and Mathematical Graph and Nets TheoryDesire and FantasmeThe driveThe castration complex in Lacan's teachingThe Impossible: Neurosis and PsychosisThe formula of the fantasme: Introduction to the driveBeing, jouissance and desireIdeal (I) - Ego (m) - Ideal (i)Graph 2

'Thanks to this magnificent, in-depth study of one of Lacan's most infamous contributions to psychoanalysis, students and Lacanian scholars will finally be relieved of a major headache. With extraordinary patience and an unfailing commitment to clarity, Alfredo Eidelsztein introduces and explains the "graph of desire" as if he himself had been privy to its production process, leaving no conceptual stone unturned and demonstrating its functionality with numerous clinical examples. Anyone wanting to access Lacan's graph without taking a shortcut needs to have a copy of this invaluable book.'- Professor Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Head of Social Sciences, Brunel University