Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260) and index.
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The "return to Freud" -- Part I. Linguistics and the formation of the unconscious -- Condensation and displacement in dream work -- The notion of structure -- Elements of structural linguistics -- The value of the linguistic sign and Lacan's anchoring point -- Metaphor, metonymy and the primacy of the signifier -- Condensation as a metaphoric process -- Displacement and dream work as metonymic processes -- The joke as a metaphoric-metonymic process -- The symptom as a metaphoric process -- Part II. The paternal metaphor as the structural crossroads of sujectivity -- The predominance of the phallus -- The mirror stage and the Oedipus Complex -- The paternal metaphor, the name-of-the-father, the metonymy of desire -- The foreclosure of the name-of-the-father : an approach to psychotic processes -- The division of the subject and the advent of the unconscious through the signifying order -- The splitting of the subject : alienation in language -- Subject of the unconscious, subject of the enunciation, subject of the utterance -- The alienation of the subject in the ego, Schema L, the foreclosure of the subject -- Dialectic of consciousness and dialectic of desire -- Part III. Desire, language, the unconscious -- Need, desire, demand -- The graph of desire 1 : from the anchoring point to the chatterbox -- The formula of communication and the unconscious as discourse of the other -- The graph of desire 2 : the creation of meaning in the signifying technique of the joke and the subversion of the unconscious in language -- The graph of desire 3 : the coupling of desire with the signifier -- The "generation" of the graph.