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vii Contents Author’s Note ix Introduction 1 Part i: The Call of the Immortal 1. The Singularity of Being 13 2. The Rewriting of Destiny 36 3. The Ethics of the Act 59 4. The Possibility of the Impossible 83 Part ii: The Echo of the Thing 5. The Jouissance of the Signifier 105 6. The Dignity of the Thing 127 7. The Ethics of Sublimation 148 8. The Sublimity of Love 168 Conclusion:The Other as Face 189 Notes 217 Works Cited 245 Index 249 For BJ, who quilted me to Lacan ...

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