Preface

Desire and Psychoanalytic Technique

Desire in Analysis

Engaging the Patient in the Therapeutic Process

The Analytic Relationship

Interpretation: Opening Up the Space of Desire

The Dialectic of Desire

Diagnosis and the Positioning of the Analyst

A Lacanian Approach to Diagnosis

Psychosis

Neurosis

Perversion

Psychoanalytic Technique beyond Desire

From Desire to Jouissance

Afterword

A Note on Documentation

Notes

Recommended Reading

Index

Bruce Fink is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the author of The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance, the coeditor of two collections of papers on Jacques Lacan, and the translator of Lacan's Seminar XX, Seminar VIII, and Ecrits (new complete edition).