1st Edition

Anxiety Between Desire and the Body What Lacan Says in Seminar X

By Bogdan Wolf Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan’s conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X. The seminar took place in the lead up to Lacan’s infamous excommunication from the IPA. Revisiting Freud’s work on the topic, Lacan conceives anxiety in an "anxiety chart" which includes adjacent terms such as inhibition, embarrassment, and turmoil. He sees... Read more

Chapter 1 – To begin: between anxiety and love

Chapter 2 – Anxiety chart

Chapter 3 – The cause of desire and the object a

Chapter 4 – "Perverse solutions".

Chapter 5 – Revision of countertransference (1)

Chapter 6 – Revision of countertransference (2)

Chapter 7 – Signs of love – women know best

Chapter 8 – Phenomena of the speaking body

Chapter 9 – The constitution of the object a

Chapter 10 – The phallus and the silent voice

Chapter 11: Psychoanalytic clinic – anxiety and the obsessional neurosis

Biography

Bogdan Wolf is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is the author of two books and several articles, co-editor of the acclaimed collection Later Lacan, and former editor-in-chief of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks, a publication of the London Society of the New Lacanian School.

"Bogan Wolf shows us the chart of the lacanian anatomy, in which the list of the classical partial objects proposed by Freud will include Lacan´s developments on the gaze and the voice, two "episodic substances" that incarnate the object a.
Let us celebrate this book that sorts out a great number of indispensable concepts for the clinical practice and proves the living movement of Lacan´s teaching. A liveliness that demands from us to follow a constant work in progress."

-Gustavo Dessal