num_pages: 352
description: Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions and "the attraction of transgression," Lacan illuminates Freud's psychoanalytic work and its continued influence. Lacan explores the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocle's Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytic experience. His exploration leads us to startling insights on "the consequence of man's relationship to desire" and the conflicting judgments of ethics and analysis.
language: English
title: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960
titlecomplete: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
genres: France, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Psychology, Read For School, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 429
series: Le Séminaire
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company