This book articulates a possible future for Lacan and psychoanalysis, through an exploration of the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis and a survey of the ways Lacanian psychoanalysis offers a unique response to the pressing clinical demands.

Svolos, Thomas

If psychoanalysis will survive in the twenty-first century, this book's wager is that it will be Lacanian psychoanalysis. Today, the survival of psychoanalysis is in question. Even Jacques Lacan himself, at the peak of his influence when psychoanalysis was a dominant discourse, did not believe that psychoanalysis would triumph and merely posed questions about the survival of psychoanalysis, when future subjects would want something else. This book articulates a possible future for Lacan and psychoanalysis, through an exploration of the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis and a survey of the ways Lacanian psychoanalysis offers a unique response to the pressing clinical demands of our time. Much of the book stages this through explications of specific ways Lacanian concepts have developed as a reading of the clinical - as well as the broader psychic and social - phenomena of our moment in history.

Preface -- Introduction -- Twenty-first century psychoanalysis -- On the Legacy of Jacques Lacan in the United States -- Jacques Lacan, reader -- Lacanian Explications -- From the father to a father -- Terrible events and their relation to the universal trauma of subjectivity -- Fundamental fantasy as the axiom of the unconscious -- Introducing the symptom -- The supposed-to know-to read-otherwise -- The body politic -- The psychoanalytic soapbox -- Addiction -- Introducing the new symptoms -- More, more, more addiction -- Psychosis -- Ordinary psychosis -- Ordinary psychosis in the era of sinthome and semblant -- Encore, Encore: Conceptual Extracts from Seminar 20 -- Encore, encore: knowledge -- Encore, encore: love -- Encore, encore: feminine -- Remarks on Psychoanalysis -- The specificity of psychoanalysis relative to psychotherapy -- Neurasthenic psychoanalysis and the Name of the Father -- Countertransference is the symptom of the analyst -- There is no situation in the United States -- Remarks on the Mental Health Field -- The American plague -- A comment on the segregation in the clinic today -- Realist, modern, and postmodern diagnosis in the psychiatric field -- The crumbled building blocks of evidence-based medicine -- Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public mental health