The Seductions of Psychoanalysis

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Temptation of Sigmund Freud: 1. The true story of Anna O.; 2. Contracting the disease of love: authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis; 3. Freud, Dora and the untold pleasures of psychoanalysis; 4. Rape, seduction, psychoanalysis; 5. ' … a perfect likeness of the past'; Part II. The Moment of Jacques Lacan: A note on Translation; 6. 'In place of an introduction', The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, books I & II; 7. What the psychoanalyst does with words: Austin, Lacan and the speech acts of psychoanalysis; 8. Dead on time: Lacan's theory of temporality; Part III. The Destiny of Psychoanalysis: 9. Who is in analysis with whom? Freud, Lacan, Derrida; 10. Psychoanalysis: gossip, telepathy and/or science?; 11. Transference and the stenographer: on Dostoevsky's The Gambler; 12. Michel Foucault and the history of psychoanalysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'Forrester traces out the lineage from Freud to Lacan to Derrida with great sophistication and erudition … Throughout, there is his usual exemplary clarity, and a wealth of supporting illustration. Indeed there is no doubt this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the wider intellectual influence of Lacan's thought.' Martin Stanton, The Times Higher Education Supplement