Analyses Lacan's article 'The Freudian Thing' which only appeared in the full English translation in 2006

Offers insight into Lacan's notoriously dense and intimating work 'Ecrits'

Situates The Freudian Thing within the broader sweep of Lacan's intellectual project

Autorentext

Adrian Johnston is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, USA. His most recent book is Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers.

Inhalt

Introduction: Returning to the Vienna of Freud.- 1. Situation in Time and Place of this Exercise.- 2. The Adversary.- 3. The Thing Speaks Itself.- 4. Parade.- 5. The Thing's Order.- 6. Resistance to the Resisters.- 7. Interlude.- 8. The other's Discourse.- 9. Imaginary Passion.- 10. Analytic Action.- 11. The Locus of Speech.- 12. Symbolic Debt.- 13. The Training of Analysts to Come.- Conclusion: Taking it to the Dogs.