The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists

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Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction, Kareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander 1 Part I Lacan and Psychological Theory, Kareen Ror Malone 19 1 The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre, Slavoj £i¶ek 23 2 The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the Ego, John Muller 41 3 Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse: Language as Praxis in Lacan, Suzanne Barnard 63 4 Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientation of Religious Experience, David Metzger 79 vii 5 No Laughing Matter: Girls’ Comics and the Preparation for Adolescent Femininity, Valerie Walkerdine 91 6 Homosexualities from Freud to Lacan, Robert Samuels 111 7 Jouissance in the Cure, André Patsalides and Kareen Ror Malone 123 Part II Lacan and the Clinic, Stephen R. Friedlander 135 8 The “Third Party” in Psychoanalysis, Stephen R. Friedlander 141 9 The Analytic Relationship, Bruce Fink 157 10 Some Reflections on Lacan’s View of Interpretation, Mario L. Beira 173 11 How Analysis Cures According to Lacan, Mark Bracher 189 12 The Treatment of Psychosis, Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin 209 13 Lacan and Family Therapy?! Opening a Space for Lacan in American Clinical Practice, Daniel L. Buccino 229 Part III Lacan, Psychology, and Culture, Kareen Ror Malone 243 14 How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to Culture, Ellie Ragland 251 15 Femininity and the Limits of Theory, Paola Mieli 265 viii Contents 16 Why Do People Take Prozac? Anxiety, Symptom, and the Inhibition of Responsibility, Patricia Gherovici 279 17 Lacan’s Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic Society, David S. Caudill 297 18 Lacan in America, Donna Bentolila 317 19 Looking for Lacan: Virtual Psychology, Ian Parker 331 20 Executors of an Ancient Pact, Lúcia Villela 345 Glossary of Lacanian Terms 361 List of Contributors 369 Index 373 Contents ix This page intentionally left blank. ...