Jouissance

Néstor A. Braunstein is an Argentine Mexican psychoanalyst, author, professor, and editor who has published extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual arts, and literature, and whose work has been translated into French and Portuguese. In English, his work appears in The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Silvia Rosman teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her books include Being in Common: Nation, Subject, and Community in Latin American Literature and Culture.

• Translator's NoteAbbreviationsIntroduction: Translating JouissanceSilvia RosmanPart I. Theory 1. Jouissance: From Lacan to FreudIn the Beginning...Jouissance in FreudA Return to Freudian BeginningsBeyond Pleasure2. Jouissology, Logic of JouissanceBetween Jouissance and LanguageJouissance Is (Not) the Satisfaction of a DriveSpeech: Diaphragm of JouissanceThe Thing and Object @Castration and the Name-of-the-FatherThe Barriers to JouissanceThe "Causation of the Subject" or Beyond Angst3. Jouissance and SexualityEquivocations of SexualityJouissance of Being, Phallic Jouissance and Jouissance of the OtherCastration as CauseThe Three Jouissance(s) and the Mobius StripFreud (Lacan) or Foucault4. Deciphering JouissanceJouissance Is CipheredLetter 52Psychoanalysis in Proust's Way: Jouissance and TimePart II. The Clinic 5. Jouissance and HysteriaThe Psychoanalyst and the HystericIn Function of JouissanceHysteria and Savoir6. Perversion, Disavowal of JouissanceThe "Positive" Side of Neurosis?The Perverse Phantasm: SavoirjouirPerversion and Feminine Jouissance7. @-diction of JouissancePsychosis Is Not ChosenPsychosis and DiscourseDrug @-diction8. Jouissance and Ethics in Psychoanalytic ExperienceA Langagière PracticePro(pulsions) and Their VicissitudesThe Duty of DesireThe Act and GuiltThe Immunological AnalogyLetter to His FatherGive Up on Desire?For Three Jouissance(s), Three SuperegosOn Love in PsychoanalysisNotesIndex

"…a thorough, rich account of Jacques Lacan's notion of jouissance … Positioning his text in relation to contemporary debates in literary analysis and queer theory, Braunstein presents a formulation of the ethical dimensions of jouissance that is novel and often polemical. This book will appeal to students of psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and philosophy, who may now engage with the text directly thanks to the careful translation of Silvia Rosman." — CHOICE