The Graph of Desire: Using the Work of Jacques Lacan by Eidelsztein HB..

Taylor & Francis

Gathers together the lectures of the Post-Graduate Course entitled 'The Graph of Desire and the Psychoanalytic Clinic', held in 1993 within the framework of the Updating Program on Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Post-Graduate Secretary, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires). > The 'graph of desire' is one of the principal points of reference in Lacanian psychoanalysis. In this book the graph is analyzed in its multiple aspects and relations. Step by step, the author reveals and considers formulations from the simplest to the most complex. The treatment of this issue does not deal only with the development and explanation > Introduction -- Graph of desire and topology -- Object a and mathematical graph and nets theory -- The structure of language: Need, demand and desire -- Graph one -- Questions and answers: The impossible\u2014neurosis and psychosis -- Ideal (I)\u2014ego (m)\u2014ideal (i): Graph 2 -- Graph 3: The question -- Desire and fantasme: A pathway (I)\u2014 theg