Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has consistently confronted law with the teaching and methods of psychoanalysis. The present collection of essays addresses a fascinating and diverse set of themes including the doctrinal regulation of tears, dance and law, the desire for the absolute, the war of texts, and the power of images.

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Acknowledgements - Preface - Editor's Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Law; P.Goodrich - An Abbreviated Glossary; P.Goodrich - Preface for English-speaking Readers; P.Legendre - The Dance of Law - Parenthesis: The Text Without Subject - Protocol of the Love Letter - Parenthesis: To Fascinate - The Masters of Law: A Study of the Dogmatic Function - Parenthesis: In Praise of Calligraphy - Hermes and Institutional Structures: An Essay on Dogmatic Communication - The Judge Amongst the Interpreters: Psychoanalysis and Legal Judgement - Introduction to the Theory of the Image: Narcissus and the Other in the Mirror - Index