1st Edition
Law, Psychoanalysis, Society Taking the Unconscious Seriously
Introduction: The Unconscious is Out There Part A: The Hole in the Subject 1. In the Beginning Was Lack 2. The Divided Subject: Freud 3. The Divided Subject: Lacan 4. Language, Truth and Lies 5. Demand Minus Need, The Hysteric and Her Master 6. The Bedrock of Sexual Difference Part B: The Hole in The Big Other 7. The Hole in Reality: Ideology Without End 8. The One Who Enjoys 9. The Subject’s Love of the Law 10. Transgression Without End? 11. Guilt Before the Law 12. Enjoyment Minus Freedom 13. The Hole in the Law 14. The Hole in the Master Part C: Placebos 15. In Place of the Object: Fantasy 16. The Subject and Her ‘Decaffeinated’ Neighbor 17. Work, Capitalism, Sex, Shopping (and shopping for sex) 18. Art, Culture, Poetry, Love 19. Nation, Community 20. Democracy, Bureaucracy Part D. Atheism 21. Dethroning the Master 22. From Lack to the Act 23. Towards An Atheist Jurisprudence
Biography
Maria Aristodemou is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London
"Law, Psychoanalysis, Society invites the reader to be guided on an unconventional journey of legal analysis. On this journey, the law itself is the patient of psychoanalysis...After reading this book, legal scholars—academics and students—will continue thinking, throughout the course of the study and practice of law, about what it is that is
hidden in law but staring us directly in the face."
Anastasia Tataryn, The Modern Law Review
