Contents
– Published in English & French
– Dates of sessions & availability of some of Jacques Lacan’s references
– Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation & both the French & English editions edited by Jacques-Alain Miller & Jacques-Alain Miller’s chapter headings
Commentaries
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Seminar VI : 7th January 1959 : From p78 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
– Published in English & French
1) Translated Cormac Gallagher (CG)
Published : www.LacaninIreland.com or here
Available : Desire and its interpretation or here
2) Translated by James Hulbert
Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet (part of Seminar VI) : Jacques Lacan
Sessions of Wednesday 15th April 1959 (The object Ophelia) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Wednesday 22nd April 1959 (Desire & Mourning) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Wednesday 29th April 1959 (Phallophany) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Yale French Studies, No. 55/56, Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise. (1977), pp. 11-52
Reprinted in Shoshana Felman (ed) (1982): Literature and Psychoanalysis – The Question of Reading. Otherwise : Baltimore MD and London : The John Hopkins University Press : p 11-52
This is a translation from Lacan’s Séminaire VI, Le désir et son interprétation. L’objet Orphélie – Le désir et le deuil – Phallophanie, texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller : Ornicar? : 1983 : 26/27 : p7-44
3) Translated by Bruce Fink (BF)
Jacques Lacan, Desire and its Interpretation, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI : Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller : Polity Press June 2019
4) In French:
Lacan J., Le Séminaire, Livre VI, Le désir et son interprétation, 1958-1959,Texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller, La Martinière/Champ Freudien, Paris June 2013
Further texts
Texts by Jacques Lacan : Available here
Texts related to Seminar VI : Available here
Dates of sessions & availability of some of Jacques Lacan’s references (a work-in-progress!) & quotations :
1) 12th November 1958
Notes
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October or here (Dream of ‘dead father’ & ‘strawberries’)
2) 19th November 1958
Notes
Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October or here
References
(p19-20) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
(p19-20) As the articles are not specified, this one may be indicated: ) Sublimation, substitution and social anxiety : July 1931 : Edward Glover or here
(p19-20) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
3) 26th November 1958
(p32) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
4) 3rd December 1958
(p40) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
3) 26th November 1958
The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
4) 3rd December 1958
The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
Dream: Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries: 31st October 1897 : Sigmund Freud or here
The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
5) 10th December 1958
Quotation
-p58 In ‘When Urgency comes from the Past’ by François Ansermet : available here
Also available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z or by date
Circulated on New Lacanian School-messager, see here : as Subject: [nls-messager] 3054.en/ TIDBITS – François Ansermet – Towards the NLS Congress 2019 (!Urgent!) : on 1st April 2019
Reference 1) The past is no longer behind us: it comes up ahead of us, hence the terror – a “panic point” [point de panique] [1]
Seminar VI : 10th December 1958 : Ch 5, p58 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation
What completely changes the nature of his relationships to the object, is this crucial point of the nature of his relationships to the object which is precisely called desire. It is in this field that we are trying to articulate the relationships of the subject to the object in the sense that they are relationships of desire, because it is in this field that analytic experience teaches us that there is something to be articulated. The relationship of the subject to the object is not a relationship of need, the relationship of the subject to the object is a complex relationship which I am precisely trying to articulate before you. For the moment let us begin to indicate the following: it is because this relationship of the articulation of the subject to the object is situated there, that the object is found to be this something which is not the correlate and the correspondent of a need of the subject, but this something which supports the subject precisely at the moment at which he has to confront as one might say his own existence, which supports the subject in his existence, in his existence in the most radical sense, namely precisely in this that he exists in language, namely that he consists in something that is outside himself, in something that he can only grasp in its proper nature as language at the precise moment when he, as subject, must efface himself, vanish, disappear behind a signifier, which is precisely what one might call the panic point around which he must attach himself to something, it is precisely to the object qua object of desire that he attaches himself.
Somewhere, someone whom I will not immediately name today, in order not to confuse matters, someone quite contemporary, who is dead, has written: ‘If one managed to learn what the Miser came to know, what the Miser lost when his money-box was stolen from him, one would learn a great deal.’
[p59] It is exactly what we have to learn, I mean learn it for ourselves and teach it to others.
6) 17th December 1958
7) 7th January 1959
References:
P79 : The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
P79 : Two Principles of Mental Functioning : 1911 : Sigmund Freud
p79 : Dream of Dead Father : The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
p84 : Question : to where in Jones is Lacan referring in the following passage? :
(i) Seminar VI : 7th January 1959 : It is the degree that something is expressed here that is the most essential point in which the being of the subject attempts to affirm itself. And this is all the more important to consider because it is precisely there, at this very locus that there should be produced what we so easily call the completed object, genital maturation; in other words everything that will constitute, as Mr. Jones biblically expresses it somewhere, the relationships of man and woman, will find itself, because man is a speaking subject, marked by the structural difficulties which are those expressed in the relationship of the $ with the a.
JE suspects it is the following passage:
(which is answered by Womanliness as a masquerade : 1929 : Joan Rivière or here & Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality : 1958 [Presented in Amsterdam, 5th September 1960] : Jacques Lacan or here)
(ii) The early development of female sexuality : 1st September 1927 (Innsbruck) : Ernest Jones or here
p462: The last consideration mentioned provides the biological reason for the most important psychological differences in the behaviour and attitude of the sexes. It leads directly to a greater dependence (as distinct from desire) of the female on the willingness and moral approbation of the partner than we usually find with the male, where the corresponding sensitiveness occurs in respect of another, authoritative male. Hence, among other things, the more characteristic reproaches and need for reassurance on the woman’s part. Among the important social consequences the following may be mentioned. It is well known that the morality of the world is essentially a male creation and – what is much more curious – that the moral ideals of women are mainly copied from those of men.
(iii) I think the following may be the biblical passages to which Jacques Lacan refers:
Quote from : https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Wife-Submit-To-Your-Husband/
1 Peter 3:1-22 – Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More…)
Ephesians 5:22-24 – Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Read More…)
Colossians 3:18 – Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:7 – Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter 3:5 – For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Timothy 2:12 – But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Ephesians 5:33 – Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
Galatians 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:1-7 – Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More…)
Commentary
7) Seminar VI : 7th January 1959
– p78 : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
8) 14th January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
9) 21st January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
10) 28th January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
p159 : Womanliness as a masquerade : 1929 : Joan Rivière or here
Please note : for other references to ‘phallic woman’, p88, p125, p135, p150, p153, of Cormac Gallagher’s translation.
11) 4th February 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
12) 11th February 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
(p151) The importance of symbol-formation in the development of the ego : 1930 : Melanie Klein or here
13) 4th March 1959
References
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
Notes
The start of the analysis of Hamlet : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
14) 11th March 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
15) 18th March 1959
(Chapter 15) p199 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
16) 8th April 1959
Commentaries
P206 : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
p206: What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
p206: The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
17) 15th April 1959
Ch 17 p223 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
Note
Bruno de Florence notes, in a message of 19th August 2013, that there is a missing word on p223 of this session. The missing word is in capitals and bold, as follows:
‘Perhaps I was forcing things a little in order to interest you, in order to show you the way these things link up with elective experiences of our clinical work. We will no doubt come back to it. You can however be sure that it is impossible in any case, without this reference to this pathological schema, to this drama, to properly situate what was put forward for the first time by Freud at the analytic level under the name of UNHEIMLICH .It is not linked, as some have thought, to all sorts of eruptions from the unconscious. It is linked to this sort of disequilibrium which is produced in the phantasy, and in so far as the phantasy, breaking through the limits which are first of all assigned to it, is decomposed and comes to rediscover that by which it rejoins the image of the other. In fact this is only a hint.’
Commentaries
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
18) 22nd April 1959
Quotations
Ch 18 p231 & 234 to 235 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted in The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
p235 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
19) 29th April 1959
p243 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
p245 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
20) 13th May 1959
References
(p249) : The Freudian Thing, or the meaning of the return to Freud in psychoanalysis : (Vienna) : 7th November 1955 : Jacques Lacan : p114 of Alan Sheridan’s translation of Écrits, a selection : Availability given Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
(p251) The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
(p252, p253) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
(p258, 20) The Femininity-Complex in Men : 12th November, 1929 : published 1930 : Felix Boehm or here
Commentaries
Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
21) 20th May 1959
p265 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
p264 & p268 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p268 : Letter of 24th January 1895 and Draft H, Paranoia (The Emma Eckstein episode) : 24th January 1895 : Sigmund Freud or here
22) 27th May 1959
p278 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p279: What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
23) 3rd June 1959
Notes
p292 : Seminar VI : 3rd June 1959 : Ernest Jones & the term castration complex by Julia Evans on April 16, 2014 or here
p292 Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Reference
p292 The Phallic Phase : given in Wiesbaden on 4th September 1932 [1933] : Ernest Jones : Information & availability here
24) 10th June 1959
Commentary
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Reference
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
About p301 (reference implied in Royaumant) : Letter of 24th January 1895 and Draft H, Paranoia (The Emma Eckstein episode) : 24th January 1895 : Sigmund Freud or here
25) 17th June 1959
( p312, p313, p314, p315) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
p313 On the Etiology of Drug-addiction : July 1932 : Edward Glover or here
p313 The importance of symbol-formation in the development of the ego : 1930 : Melanie Klein or here
26) 24th June 1959
27) 1st July 1959
Notes
p344-345 : Moments of Crisis : 10th May 2014 (Ghent) : Gil Caroz or here
Jacques Lacan comments Dream ‘fresh brains’ in Seminars I, III, VI & X and Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis : 26th & 27th September 1953 & Direction of the Treatment : 10th to 13th July 1958 or here
p342 & 346 : What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
p344 Jacques Lacan comments Dream ‘fresh brains’ in Seminars I, III, VI & X and Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis : 26th & 27th September 1953 & Direction of the Treatment : 10th to 13th July 1958 or here
p345 to 346 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p344 & p345-346 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
References
Ego psychology and interpretation in psychoanalytic therapies (Case ‘fresh brains’) : December 1948 (New York) [1951] : Ernst Kris or here
Intellectual Inhibition & Disturbances in Eating (Dream ‘fresh brains’) : September 1933 [Published1938] : Melitta Schmideberg or here
( p343, p344) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
– Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation & both the French & English editions edited by Jacques-Alain Miller & Jacques-Alain Miller’s chapter headings
Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation – CG
Page numbers in English translation of Jacques-Alain Miller’s edited – BF
Page numbers in the French publication, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller – F
INTRODUCTION – JAM’s section title
Seminar VI : 12th November 1958
CG (1) p1 – 15
BF p3 – 24
CONSTRUCTING THE GRAPH
Reintroducing the word “desire”
Poets and philosophers
The three schemas
A defense against distress
Darwin and the devil’s shudder
F p11 – 35
Seminar VI : 19th November 1958
CG (2) p16 – 26
BF p25 – 40
FURTHER EXPLANATION
Two levels and four processes
Continuity and fragmentation
The two I’s
What does “I desire you” mean?
From the first to the second topography
F p37 – 55
ON DESIRE IN DREAMS – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 26th November 1958
CG (3) p27 – 39
BF p43 – 59
THE DREAM ABOUT THE DEAD FATHER : “HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS DEAD
Taking being literally
From associationism to psychoanalysis
Affects and signifiers
Elision = metaphor
The instance of the half-dead
F p59 – 78
Seminar VI : 3rd December 1958
CG (4) p40 – 53
BF p60 – 94
LITTLE ANNA’S DREAM
Hallucination, between pleasure and reality
The topology of signifiers
The palimpsest of repressions
The Iof the statement and the Iof enunciation
Repression, from the unsaid to not-knowing
F p80 – 119
Seminar VI : 10th December 1958
CG (5) p54 – 65
BF p78 – 94
THE DREAM ABOUT THE DEAD FATHER : “AS HE WISHED”
The foreclusive and the discordant
The subject’s vacillation when faced with the object of desire
“To be a beautiful blonde and popular, too . . .”
The dream laid out on the graph
Death, pain, castration, and necessity
F p101 – 119
Seminar VI : 17th December 1958
CG (6) p66 – 77
BF p95 – 110
INTRODUCING THE OBJECT OF DESIRE
The three levels of interpretation
The algorithm ($<>a) guides us
From castration to aphanisis
From use to exchange
From hippos to women
F p121 – 138
Seminar VI : 7th January 1959
CG (7) p78 – 91
BF p111 – 129
DESIRE’S PHALLIC MEDIATION
The symptom in the RIS knot
The imaginary interposition of the dead father
The signifying privilege of the imaginary phallus
The subject’s primary masochism
Love and desire in men and women
F p139 – 160
A DREAM ANALYZED BY ELLA SHARPE – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 14th January 1959
CG (8) p92 – 104
BF p133 – 151
THE LITTLE COUGH AS A MESSAGE
The enigma of enunciation
The subject’s being lies in fantasy
The positional affects of being
Text and context of the dream
The brilliant Ella Sharpe
Fp163 – 183
Seminar VI : 21st January 1959
CG (9) p105 – 118
BF p152 – 170
THE FANTASY ABOUT THE BARKING DOG
The cough, a signifier of the Other
Analyzing the fantasy without understanding it
Dogs go meow, cats go bow-wow
Darwin and the duck’s quack
Masturbating dog = ego-ideal
F p185 – 205
Seminar VI : 28th January 1959
CG (10) p119 – 132
BF p171 – 190
THE IMAGE OF THE INSIDE-OUT GLOVE
The link between fantasies and dreams
Behind the door lies an enigma
The Queen of Sweden and the Lady from China
The narcissistic relationship to the penis
Separating the male and female principles
F p207 – 229
Seminar VI : 4th February 1959
CG (11) p133 – 146
BF p191 – 209
SACRIFICING THE TABOO QUEEN
Aphanisis, Jones’s term
Where is the phallus?
Cons abound
Chess as a metaphor
Countertransferential pickles
F p231 – 252
Seminar VI : 11th February 1959
CG (12) p147 – 160
BF p210 – 229
THE LAUGHTER OF THE IMMORTAL GODS
To be and not to be the phallus
To be not without having it
Being and the One
Critique of Melanie Klein
The other’s image and capital I
F p253 – 275
SEVEN CLASSES ON HAMLET– JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 4th March 1959
CG (13) p161 – 171
BF p233 – 248
IMPOSSIBLE ACTION
Freud on Hamlet
A more fundamental framework
Oedipus and Hamlet
The first threads
Orphelia, barometer of desire
F p279 – 296
Seminar VI : 11th March 1959
CG (14) p172 – 185
BF p249 – 268
THE DESIRE TRAP
Myriad commentaries
A bird catcher’s net
The unfolding of the play
The “play scene” (in English in the original)
The key point
F p297 – 318
Seminar VI : 18th March 1959
CG (15) p186 – 200
BF p269 – 290
THE MOTHER’S DESIRE
From mystery to illusion
Hamlet, a mode of discourse
The prohibition from which the unconscious arises
Hamlet’s impure desire
The circuit of desire
F p319 – 343
Seminar VI : 8th April 1959
CG (16) p201 – 211
BF p291 – 305
THERE IS NO OTHER OF THE OTHER
A father who knew the truth
The meaning of the symbol S(A) [A barred]
The big secret of psychoanalysis
The object, a cursor of the level of desire
The “fading”* of the subject (*fading in English originally)
F p345 – 361
Seminar VI : 15th April 1959
CG (17) p212 – 224
BF p306 – 322
OPHELIA, THE OBJECT
The paradoxes of fantasy
When fantasy emphasizes object (a)
. . . and when it emphasizes the barred subject
Hamlet is forever on other people’s time
The pathology of fantasized vacillation
F p363 – 382
Seminar VI : 22nd April 1959
CG (18) p225 – 236
BF p323 – 338
MOURNING AND DESIRE
Procrastination and precipitation
A mathematical metaphor of the phallus
Hamlet and his double
Why and how Hamlet acts crazy
On what is foreclosed in the real
F p383 – 400
Seminar VI : 29th April 1959
CG (19) p237 – 248
BF p339 – 354
PHALLOPHANIES
Hamletand Oedipus
Mourning the loss of the phallus
. . . and its transformation into a signifier
Forms of the subject’s disappearance
A real and rotten phallus
F p401 – 419
THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 13th May 1959
CG (20) p249 – 261
BF p357 – 373
THE FUNDAMENTAL FANTASY
No pre-established harmony between desire and the world
Synchrony’s privilege
Desire and reality in Glover’s work and in Hartmann’s
Our experience with homosexuality
The dialectic grasped in its synchronic structure
F p423 – 442
Seminar VI : 20th May 1959
CG (21) p262 – 274
BF p374 – 390
IN THE FORM OF A CUT
The subject’s “Est-ce?”
Real versus knowledge
On the subject’s real
Three examples of object a
Breathing and the voice
F p443 – 461
Seminar VI : 27th May 1959
CG (22) p275 – 285
BF p391 – 406
CUT AND FANTASY
Choice, drive, and repetition
The creative cut
Details in works of art
Is the ghost* a liar? [* ghost in English in the original]
Hamlet’s fantasy
F p463 – 480
Seminar VI : 3rd June 1959
CG (23) p286 – 297
BF p407 – 421
THE FUNCTION OF THE SUBJECTIVE SLIT IN PERVERSE FANTASIES
Not one
The Last Judgment
An artificial perversion
Voyeurism and exhibitionism
When little a is the Other’s desire
F p 481 – 498
Seminar VI : 10th June 1959
CG (24) p298 – 308
BF p422 – 435
THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE IN NEUROSIS
The traumatic Other
The hysteric and his double
The obsessive’s hiding place
To be the phallus or to be no one
When jouissance crushes desire
F p499 – 514
Seminar VI : 17th June 1959
CG (25) p309 – 323
BF p436 – 452
THE EITHER/OR CONCERNING THE OBJECT
Perverse fantasy and perversion
Fantasy and the construction of reality
The paradox of the bad internal object
The radical nature of female jealousy
The function of substitutes in neurosis
F p515 – 534
Seminar VI : 24th June 1959
CG (26) p324 – 334
BF p453 – 467
THE FUNCTION OF SPLITTING* IN PERVERSION [*splitting in English in the original]
The locus of perverse desire in Lolita
A feature of masochistic jouissance
The machine in schizophrenia
The idolized woman in homosexuality
Desire on the horizon or desire at the heart of . . .
F p535 – 551
CONCLUSION AND OVERTURE [JAM’s section heading]
Seminar VI : 1st July 1959
CG (27) p335 – 347
BF p471 – 486
TOWARD SUBLIMATION
Critique of so-called reality
Defending the dimension of desire
The inexorability of the real
Reducing drives to signifiers
Perversion’s value as a protest
F p555 – 573
APPENDIX
BF 489 – 518
MARGINALIA ON THE SEMINAR ON DESIRE
Some useful references, along with associations that came to mind
By Jacques-Alain Miller
F p575 – 610
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Seminar VI : Desire and its interpretation : 1958-1959 : from 12th November 1958 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on November 12, 1958
Contents
– Published in English & French
– Dates of sessions & availability of some of Jacques Lacan’s references
– Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation & both the French & English editions edited by Jacques-Alain Miller & Jacques-Alain Miller’s chapter headings
Commentaries
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Seminar VI : 7th January 1959 : From p78 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
– Published in English & French
1) Translated Cormac Gallagher (CG)
Published : www.LacaninIreland.com or here
Available : Desire and its interpretation or here
2) Translated by James Hulbert
Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet (part of Seminar VI) : Jacques Lacan
Sessions of Wednesday 15th April 1959 (The object Ophelia) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Wednesday 22nd April 1959 (Desire & Mourning) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Wednesday 29th April 1959 (Phallophany) : available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan,
Yale French Studies, No. 55/56, Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise. (1977), pp. 11-52
Reprinted in Shoshana Felman (ed) (1982): Literature and Psychoanalysis – The Question of Reading. Otherwise : Baltimore MD and London : The John Hopkins University Press : p 11-52
This is a translation from Lacan’s Séminaire VI, Le désir et son interprétation. L’objet Orphélie – Le désir et le deuil – Phallophanie, texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller : Ornicar? : 1983 : 26/27 : p7-44
3) Translated by Bruce Fink (BF)
Jacques Lacan, Desire and its Interpretation, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI : Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller : Polity Press June 2019
4) In French:
Lacan J., Le Séminaire, Livre VI, Le désir et son interprétation, 1958-1959,Texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller, La Martinière/Champ Freudien, Paris June 2013
Further texts
Texts by Jacques Lacan : Available here
Texts related to Seminar VI : Available here
Dates of sessions & availability of some of Jacques Lacan’s references (a work-in-progress!) & quotations :
1) 12th November 1958
Notes
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October or here (Dream of ‘dead father’ & ‘strawberries’)
2) 19th November 1958
Notes
Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October or here
References
(p19-20) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
(p19-20) As the articles are not specified, this one may be indicated: ) Sublimation, substitution and social anxiety : July 1931 : Edward Glover or here
(p19-20) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
3) 26th November 1958
(p32) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
4) 3rd December 1958
(p40) The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
3) 26th November 1958
The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
4) 3rd December 1958
The Psycho-analysis of Affects: 1939: Edward Glover or here
Dream: Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries: 31st October 1897 : Sigmund Freud or here
The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
5) 10th December 1958
Quotation
-p58 In ‘When Urgency comes from the Past’ by François Ansermet : available here
Also available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z or by date
Circulated on New Lacanian School-messager, see here : as Subject: [nls-messager] 3054.en/ TIDBITS – François Ansermet – Towards the NLS Congress 2019 (!Urgent!) : on 1st April 2019
Reference 1) The past is no longer behind us: it comes up ahead of us, hence the terror – a “panic point” [point de panique] [1]
Seminar VI : 10th December 1958 : Ch 5, p58 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation
What completely changes the nature of his relationships to the object, is this crucial point of the nature of his relationships to the object which is precisely called desire. It is in this field that we are trying to articulate the relationships of the subject to the object in the sense that they are relationships of desire, because it is in this field that analytic experience teaches us that there is something to be articulated. The relationship of the subject to the object is not a relationship of need, the relationship of the subject to the object is a complex relationship which I am precisely trying to articulate before you. For the moment let us begin to indicate the following: it is because this relationship of the articulation of the subject to the object is situated there, that the object is found to be this something which is not the correlate and the correspondent of a need of the subject, but this something which supports the subject precisely at the moment at which he has to confront as one might say his own existence, which supports the subject in his existence, in his existence in the most radical sense, namely precisely in this that he exists in language, namely that he consists in something that is outside himself, in something that he can only grasp in its proper nature as language at the precise moment when he, as subject, must efface himself, vanish, disappear behind a signifier, which is precisely what one might call the panic point around which he must attach himself to something, it is precisely to the object qua object of desire that he attaches himself.
Somewhere, someone whom I will not immediately name today, in order not to confuse matters, someone quite contemporary, who is dead, has written: ‘If one managed to learn what the Miser came to know, what the Miser lost when his money-box was stolen from him, one would learn a great deal.’
[p59] It is exactly what we have to learn, I mean learn it for ourselves and teach it to others.
6) 17th December 1958
7) 7th January 1959
References:
P79 : The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
P79 : Two Principles of Mental Functioning : 1911 : Sigmund Freud
p79 : Dream of Dead Father : The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
p84 : Question : to where in Jones is Lacan referring in the following passage? :
(i) Seminar VI : 7th January 1959 : It is the degree that something is expressed here that is the most essential point in which the being of the subject attempts to affirm itself. And this is all the more important to consider because it is precisely there, at this very locus that there should be produced what we so easily call the completed object, genital maturation; in other words everything that will constitute, as Mr. Jones biblically expresses it somewhere, the relationships of man and woman, will find itself, because man is a speaking subject, marked by the structural difficulties which are those expressed in the relationship of the $ with the a.
JE suspects it is the following passage:
(which is answered by Womanliness as a masquerade : 1929 : Joan Rivière or here & Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality : 1958 [Presented in Amsterdam, 5th September 1960] : Jacques Lacan or here)
(ii) The early development of female sexuality : 1st September 1927 (Innsbruck) : Ernest Jones or here
p462: The last consideration mentioned provides the biological reason for the most important psychological differences in the behaviour and attitude of the sexes. It leads directly to a greater dependence (as distinct from desire) of the female on the willingness and moral approbation of the partner than we usually find with the male, where the corresponding sensitiveness occurs in respect of another, authoritative male. Hence, among other things, the more characteristic reproaches and need for reassurance on the woman’s part. Among the important social consequences the following may be mentioned. It is well known that the morality of the world is essentially a male creation and – what is much more curious – that the moral ideals of women are mainly copied from those of men.
(iii) I think the following may be the biblical passages to which Jacques Lacan refers:
Quote from : https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Wife-Submit-To-Your-Husband/
1 Peter 3:1-22 – Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More…)
Ephesians 5:22-24 – Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Read More…)
Colossians 3:18 – Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:7 – Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter 3:5 – For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Timothy 2:12 – But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Ephesians 5:33 – Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
Galatians 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:1-7 – Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More…)
Commentary
7) Seminar VI : 7th January 1959
– p78 : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
8) 14th January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
9) 21st January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
10) 28th January 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
p159 : Womanliness as a masquerade : 1929 : Joan Rivière or here
Please note : for other references to ‘phallic woman’, p88, p125, p135, p150, p153, of Cormac Gallagher’s translation.
11) 4th February 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
12) 11th February 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
(p151) The importance of symbol-formation in the development of the ego : 1930 : Melanie Klein or here
13) 4th March 1959
References
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
Notes
The start of the analysis of Hamlet : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
14) 11th March 1959
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
15) 18th March 1959
(Chapter 15) p199 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
16) 8th April 1959
Commentaries
P206 : The Seventh Chapter of Seminar VI : 26th April 2014 : Francisco-Hugo Freda or here
Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
p206: What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
p206: The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
17) 15th April 1959
Ch 17 p223 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
Note
Bruno de Florence notes, in a message of 19th August 2013, that there is a missing word on p223 of this session. The missing word is in capitals and bold, as follows:
‘Perhaps I was forcing things a little in order to interest you, in order to show you the way these things link up with elective experiences of our clinical work. We will no doubt come back to it. You can however be sure that it is impossible in any case, without this reference to this pathological schema, to this drama, to properly situate what was put forward for the first time by Freud at the analytic level under the name of UNHEIMLICH .It is not linked, as some have thought, to all sorts of eruptions from the unconscious. It is linked to this sort of disequilibrium which is produced in the phantasy, and in so far as the phantasy, breaking through the limits which are first of all assigned to it, is decomposed and comes to rediscover that by which it rejoins the image of the other. In fact this is only a hint.’
Commentaries
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
The Other without Other : Sunday 19th May 2013: in Athens : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
18) 22nd April 1959
Quotations
Ch 18 p231 & 234 to 235 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted in The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
p235 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
19) 29th April 1959
p243 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : The Urgency of Mourning : 28th March 2019 : Michele Laboureur or here
p245 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
20) 13th May 1959
References
(p249) : The Freudian Thing, or the meaning of the return to Freud in psychoanalysis : (Vienna) : 7th November 1955 : Jacques Lacan : p114 of Alan Sheridan’s translation of Écrits, a selection : Availability given Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
(p251) The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here
(p252, p253) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
(p258, 20) The Femininity-Complex in Men : 12th November, 1929 : published 1930 : Felix Boehm or here
Commentaries
Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
21) 20th May 1959
p265 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
p264 & p268 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p268 : Letter of 24th January 1895 and Draft H, Paranoia (The Emma Eckstein episode) : 24th January 1895 : Sigmund Freud or here
22) 27th May 1959
p278 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p279: What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
23) 3rd June 1959
Notes
p292 : Seminar VI : 3rd June 1959 : Ernest Jones & the term castration complex by Julia Evans on April 16, 2014 or here
p292 Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Reference
p292 The Phallic Phase : given in Wiesbaden on 4th September 1932 [1933] : Ernest Jones : Information & availability here
24) 10th June 1959
Commentary
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
Reference
Analysis of a single dream : 1937 : Ella Sharpe or here
About p301 (reference implied in Royaumant) : Letter of 24th January 1895 and Draft H, Paranoia (The Emma Eckstein episode) : 24th January 1895 : Sigmund Freud or here
25) 17th June 1959
( p312, p313, p314, p315) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
p313 On the Etiology of Drug-addiction : July 1932 : Edward Glover or here
p313 The importance of symbol-formation in the development of the ego : 1930 : Melanie Klein or here
26) 24th June 1959
27) 1st July 1959
Notes
p344-345 : Moments of Crisis : 10th May 2014 (Ghent) : Gil Caroz or here
Jacques Lacan comments Dream ‘fresh brains’ in Seminars I, III, VI & X and Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis : 26th & 27th September 1953 & Direction of the Treatment : 10th to 13th July 1958 or here
p342 & 346 : What Cannot Be Said: Desire, Fantasy, Real : 11th September 2013 : Dominique Holvoet or here
p344 Jacques Lacan comments Dream ‘fresh brains’ in Seminars I, III, VI & X and Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis : 26th & 27th September 1953 & Direction of the Treatment : 10th to 13th July 1958 or here
p345 to 346 : Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller or here
p344 & p345-346 : Tracking the use of ‘logos’ in Seminar VI and Seminar VII by Julia Evans on November 30, 2013 or here
References
Ego psychology and interpretation in psychoanalytic therapies (Case ‘fresh brains’) : December 1948 (New York) [1951] : Ernst Kris or here
Intellectual Inhibition & Disturbances in Eating (Dream ‘fresh brains’) : September 1933 [Published1938] : Melitta Schmideberg or here
( p343, p344) The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense : 1933 : Edward Glover or here
– Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation & both the French & English editions edited by Jacques-Alain Miller & Jacques-Alain Miller’s chapter headings
Page numbers in Cormac Gallagher’s translation – CG
Page numbers in English translation of Jacques-Alain Miller’s edited – BF
Page numbers in the French publication, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller – F
INTRODUCTION – JAM’s section title
Seminar VI : 12th November 1958
CG (1) p1 – 15
BF p3 – 24
CONSTRUCTING THE GRAPH
Reintroducing the word “desire”
Poets and philosophers
The three schemas
A defense against distress
Darwin and the devil’s shudder
F p11 – 35
Seminar VI : 19th November 1958
CG (2) p16 – 26
BF p25 – 40
FURTHER EXPLANATION
Two levels and four processes
Continuity and fragmentation
The two I’s
What does “I desire you” mean?
From the first to the second topography
F p37 – 55
ON DESIRE IN DREAMS – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 26th November 1958
CG (3) p27 – 39
BF p43 – 59
THE DREAM ABOUT THE DEAD FATHER : “HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS DEAD
Taking being literally
From associationism to psychoanalysis
Affects and signifiers
Elision = metaphor
The instance of the half-dead
F p59 – 78
Seminar VI : 3rd December 1958
CG (4) p40 – 53
BF p60 – 94
LITTLE ANNA’S DREAM
Hallucination, between pleasure and reality
The topology of signifiers
The palimpsest of repressions
The Iof the statement and the Iof enunciation
Repression, from the unsaid to not-knowing
F p80 – 119
Seminar VI : 10th December 1958
CG (5) p54 – 65
BF p78 – 94
THE DREAM ABOUT THE DEAD FATHER : “AS HE WISHED”
The foreclusive and the discordant
The subject’s vacillation when faced with the object of desire
“To be a beautiful blonde and popular, too . . .”
The dream laid out on the graph
Death, pain, castration, and necessity
F p101 – 119
Seminar VI : 17th December 1958
CG (6) p66 – 77
BF p95 – 110
INTRODUCING THE OBJECT OF DESIRE
The three levels of interpretation
The algorithm ($<>a) guides us
From castration to aphanisis
From use to exchange
From hippos to women
F p121 – 138
Seminar VI : 7th January 1959
CG (7) p78 – 91
BF p111 – 129
DESIRE’S PHALLIC MEDIATION
The symptom in the RIS knot
The imaginary interposition of the dead father
The signifying privilege of the imaginary phallus
The subject’s primary masochism
Love and desire in men and women
F p139 – 160
A DREAM ANALYZED BY ELLA SHARPE – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 14th January 1959
CG (8) p92 – 104
BF p133 – 151
THE LITTLE COUGH AS A MESSAGE
The enigma of enunciation
The subject’s being lies in fantasy
The positional affects of being
Text and context of the dream
The brilliant Ella Sharpe
Fp163 – 183
Seminar VI : 21st January 1959
CG (9) p105 – 118
BF p152 – 170
THE FANTASY ABOUT THE BARKING DOG
The cough, a signifier of the Other
Analyzing the fantasy without understanding it
Dogs go meow, cats go bow-wow
Darwin and the duck’s quack
Masturbating dog = ego-ideal
F p185 – 205
Seminar VI : 28th January 1959
CG (10) p119 – 132
BF p171 – 190
THE IMAGE OF THE INSIDE-OUT GLOVE
The link between fantasies and dreams
Behind the door lies an enigma
The Queen of Sweden and the Lady from China
The narcissistic relationship to the penis
Separating the male and female principles
F p207 – 229
Seminar VI : 4th February 1959
CG (11) p133 – 146
BF p191 – 209
SACRIFICING THE TABOO QUEEN
Aphanisis, Jones’s term
Where is the phallus?
Cons abound
Chess as a metaphor
Countertransferential pickles
F p231 – 252
Seminar VI : 11th February 1959
CG (12) p147 – 160
BF p210 – 229
THE LAUGHTER OF THE IMMORTAL GODS
To be and not to be the phallus
To be not without having it
Being and the One
Critique of Melanie Klein
The other’s image and capital I
F p253 – 275
SEVEN CLASSES ON HAMLET– JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 4th March 1959
CG (13) p161 – 171
BF p233 – 248
IMPOSSIBLE ACTION
Freud on Hamlet
A more fundamental framework
Oedipus and Hamlet
The first threads
Orphelia, barometer of desire
F p279 – 296
Seminar VI : 11th March 1959
CG (14) p172 – 185
BF p249 – 268
THE DESIRE TRAP
Myriad commentaries
A bird catcher’s net
The unfolding of the play
The “play scene” (in English in the original)
The key point
F p297 – 318
Seminar VI : 18th March 1959
CG (15) p186 – 200
BF p269 – 290
THE MOTHER’S DESIRE
From mystery to illusion
Hamlet, a mode of discourse
The prohibition from which the unconscious arises
Hamlet’s impure desire
The circuit of desire
F p319 – 343
Seminar VI : 8th April 1959
CG (16) p201 – 211
BF p291 – 305
THERE IS NO OTHER OF THE OTHER
A father who knew the truth
The meaning of the symbol S(A) [A barred]
The big secret of psychoanalysis
The object, a cursor of the level of desire
The “fading”* of the subject (*fading in English originally)
F p345 – 361
Seminar VI : 15th April 1959
CG (17) p212 – 224
BF p306 – 322
OPHELIA, THE OBJECT
The paradoxes of fantasy
When fantasy emphasizes object (a)
. . . and when it emphasizes the barred subject
Hamlet is forever on other people’s time
The pathology of fantasized vacillation
F p363 – 382
Seminar VI : 22nd April 1959
CG (18) p225 – 236
BF p323 – 338
MOURNING AND DESIRE
Procrastination and precipitation
A mathematical metaphor of the phallus
Hamlet and his double
Why and how Hamlet acts crazy
On what is foreclosed in the real
F p383 – 400
Seminar VI : 29th April 1959
CG (19) p237 – 248
BF p339 – 354
PHALLOPHANIES
Hamletand Oedipus
Mourning the loss of the phallus
. . . and its transformation into a signifier
Forms of the subject’s disappearance
A real and rotten phallus
F p401 – 419
THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE – JAM’s section heading
Seminar VI : 13th May 1959
CG (20) p249 – 261
BF p357 – 373
THE FUNDAMENTAL FANTASY
No pre-established harmony between desire and the world
Synchrony’s privilege
Desire and reality in Glover’s work and in Hartmann’s
Our experience with homosexuality
The dialectic grasped in its synchronic structure
F p423 – 442
Seminar VI : 20th May 1959
CG (21) p262 – 274
BF p374 – 390
IN THE FORM OF A CUT
The subject’s “Est-ce?”
Real versus knowledge
On the subject’s real
Three examples of object a
Breathing and the voice
F p443 – 461
Seminar VI : 27th May 1959
CG (22) p275 – 285
BF p391 – 406
CUT AND FANTASY
Choice, drive, and repetition
The creative cut
Details in works of art
Is the ghost* a liar? [* ghost in English in the original]
Hamlet’s fantasy
F p463 – 480
Seminar VI : 3rd June 1959
CG (23) p286 – 297
BF p407 – 421
THE FUNCTION OF THE SUBJECTIVE SLIT IN PERVERSE FANTASIES
Not one
The Last Judgment
An artificial perversion
Voyeurism and exhibitionism
When little a is the Other’s desire
F p 481 – 498
Seminar VI : 10th June 1959
CG (24) p298 – 308
BF p422 – 435
THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE IN NEUROSIS
The traumatic Other
The hysteric and his double
The obsessive’s hiding place
To be the phallus or to be no one
When jouissance crushes desire
F p499 – 514
Seminar VI : 17th June 1959
CG (25) p309 – 323
BF p436 – 452
THE EITHER/OR CONCERNING THE OBJECT
Perverse fantasy and perversion
Fantasy and the construction of reality
The paradox of the bad internal object
The radical nature of female jealousy
The function of substitutes in neurosis
F p515 – 534
Seminar VI : 24th June 1959
CG (26) p324 – 334
BF p453 – 467
THE FUNCTION OF SPLITTING* IN PERVERSION [*splitting in English in the original]
The locus of perverse desire in Lolita
A feature of masochistic jouissance
The machine in schizophrenia
The idolized woman in homosexuality
Desire on the horizon or desire at the heart of . . .
F p535 – 551
CONCLUSION AND OVERTURE [JAM’s section heading]
Seminar VI : 1st July 1959
CG (27) p335 – 347
BF p471 – 486
TOWARD SUBLIMATION
Critique of so-called reality
Defending the dimension of desire
The inexorability of the real
Reducing drives to signifiers
Perversion’s value as a protest
F p555 – 573
APPENDIX
BF 489 – 518
MARGINALIA ON THE SEMINAR ON DESIRE
Some useful references, along with associations that came to mind
By Jacques-Alain Miller
F p575 – 610
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