This book brings Jacques Lacan's work on the problem of anxiety into a jarring and fruitful confrontation with phenomenology, existentialism, and the 'jargon' of authenticity. Brian Robertson masterfully upends a host of received philosophical truths - most notably, and crucially, the idea that anxiety 'lacks an object.'

Introduction: Have No Fear ... 1. The Uncanny 2. Erotic Embarras and the Fetish Object 3. Anxiety in Sadism and Masochism 4. The Demonic Secret 5. Anxiety and Sexual Difference (I): Kierkegaard's Embarrassing Question 6. Anxiety and Sexual Difference (II): Genital Love and Countertransference 7. Anxiety in Animals and Speaking Animals 8. Adding Two 'New' Objects to the List: The Gaze and the Voice Concluding Remarks: 'Understumbling' Anxiety Bibliography