Lacanian Realism

Duane Rousselle is Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He also maintains a private practice in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

• Preface to “Lacanian Realism”Katerina KolozovaAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionPart I: Metaphysics and Hysteria: A Clinical OverviewChapter 1: Eisegesis of Hysteria in Lacan’s TeachingChapter 2: The Phallus as Signifying FunctionChapter 3: From Signifying Function to the Thing FunctionChapter 4: The New Contradiction: Things and SubjectsChapter 5: Non-Psychoanalysis: The New Hysterical QuestionPart II: Politics and ObsessionChapter 6: From Hysteria to Obsession: On the Question of StyleChapter 7: The Question of Repetition or the Repetition of a QuestionChapter 8: From Obsession to HysteriaChapter 9: The Good Work of the SlaveChapter 10: The Situation of Obsessional PoliticsChapter 11: The Knot of RupturePart III: Numbers and ThingsChapter 12: Making Things Count and Things Making CountChapter 13: The Coup de Force of 3Chapter 14: Transcendental Barriers for Thinking Immanence; How to Make a Borromean Knot Out of a Single Piece of StringBibliographyIndex

Rousselle's efforts must be applauded and his originality celebrated, for he has brought together disciplines—philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis—that do not always make for intellectual bedfellows. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals.