The Object Relation

Figures, Tables and Illustrations

THEORISING THE LACK OF OBJECT

I. Introduction

II. The Three Forms of the Lack of Object

III. The Signifier and the Holy Spirit

IV. The Dialectic of Frustration

V. On Analysis as Bundling, and the Consequences Thereof

THE PERVERSE WAYS OF DESIRE

VI. The Primacy of the Phallus and the Young Homosexual Woman

VII. A Child is Being Beaten and the Young Homosexual Woman

VIII. Dora and the Young Homosexual Woman

THE FETISH OBJECT

IX. The Function of the Veil

X. Identification with the Phallus

XI. The Phallus and the Unfulfilled Mother

MYTHICAL STRUCTURE IN THE OBSERVATION ON LITTLE HANS’S PHOBIA

XII. On the Oedipus Complex

XIII. On the Castration Complex

XIV. The Signifier in the Real

XV. What Myth is For

XVI. How Myth is Analysed

XVII. The Signifier and Der Witz

XVIII. Circuits

XIX. Permutations

XX. Transformations

XXI. The Mother’s Drawers and the Father’s Shortcoming

XXII. An Essay in Rubber-Sheet Logic

XXIII. ‘Me donnera sans femme une progéniture’

ENVOY

XXIV. From Hans-the-Fetish to Leonardo-in-the-Mirror

Map of Vienna (Baedeker 1905)

Note

Translator’s Notes