{"product_id":"formations-of-the-unconscious-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-v-hardback-9780745660370","title":"Formations of the Unconscious; The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V (Hardback) 9780745660370","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFormations of the Unconscious\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacques Lacan (Author), Jacques-Alain Miller (Edited by), Russell Grigg (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745660370, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 4.8 cm, 0.953 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen I decided to explore the question of \u003ci\u003eWitz\u003c\/i\u003e, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who introduces the dimension of an especially playful wit that runs through his work, as much in his prose as in more poetic forms, and which he brings into play even when he happens to be talking about mathematics, for he is also a mathematician. I am referring to Raymond Queneau. While we were exchanging our first remarks on the matter he told me a joke. It’s a joke about exams, about the university entrance exams, if you like. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe have a candidate and we have an examiner. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e – “Tell me”, says the examiner, “about the battle of Marengo.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The candidate pauses for a moment, with a dreamy air. “The battle of Marengo...? Bodies everywhere! It’s terrible... Wounded everywhere! It’s horrible...”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “But”, says the examiner, “Can’t you tell me anything more precise about this battle?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The candidate thinks for a moment, then replies, “A horse rears up on its hind legs and whinnies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The examiner, surprised, seeks to test him a little further and says, “In that case, can you tell me about the battle of Fontenoy?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Oh!” says the candidate, “a horse rears up on its hind legs and whinnies.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe examiner, strategically, asked the candidate to talk about the battle of Trafalgar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The candidate replies, “Dead everywhere! A blood bath.... Wounded everywhere! Hundreds of them....”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “But my good man, can’t you tell me anything more precise about this battle?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A horse...”  “Excuse me, I would have you note that the battle of Trafalgar is a naval battle.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Whoah! Whoah!” says the candidate. “Back up, Neddy!” The value of this joke is, to my mind, that it enables us to decompose, I believe, what is at stake in a witticism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (Extract from Chapter VI)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTranslator’s Note \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Freudian structures of wit\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. The Famillionaire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. The Fat-millionaire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. The Miglionaire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV. The Golden Calf\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVI. Whoah, Neddy!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVII. Une Femme de Non-Recevoir, or : A Flat Refusal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE LOGIC OF CASTRATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVIII. Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIX. The Paternal Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eX. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (I)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXI. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (II)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXII. From Image to Signifier Ð in Pleasure and in Reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIII. Fantasy, Beyond the Pleasure Principle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PHALLUS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIV. Desire and Jouissance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXV. The Girl and the Phallus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXVI. Insignias of the Ideal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXVII. The Formulas of Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXVIII. Symptoms and Their Masks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIX. Signifier, Bar and Phallus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dialectic of desire and demand in the clinical study and treatment of the neuroses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXX. The Dream by the Butcher’s Beautiful Wife\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXI. The ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ Dreams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXII. The Other’s Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXIII. The Obsessional and his Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXIV. Transference and Suggestion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXV. The Signification of the Phallus in the Treatment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXVI. The Circuits of Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXVII. Exiting via the Symptom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXXVIII. You Are the One You Hate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAPPENDICES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Graph of Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplanation of the Schemas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditor’s Note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslator’s Endnotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470097477912,"sku":"9780745660370","price":28.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745660370.jpg?v=1785633122","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/formations-of-the-unconscious-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-v-hardback-9780745660370","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}