Articles by noted Lacanian psychoanalysts and scholars discussing issues that emerge in Lacan's Seminar XVII (newly translated) that import fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, political theory, cultural studies and literary studies.

Introduction 1
I. Clinic of the Discourses
1. On Shame / Jacques-Alain Miller 11
2. Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan’s Revision of the Oedipus Complex / Paul Verhaeghe 29
3. Beyond the Oedipus Complex / Russell Grigg 50
4. The Hysteric’s Truth / Ellie Ragland 69
5. Toward a New Perversion: Psychoanalysis / Dominiek Hoens 88
II. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
6. Objet a in Social Links / Slavoj Žižek 107
7. Hegel as the Other Side of Psychoanalysis / Mladen Dolar 129
8. When Surplus Enjoyment Meets Surplus Value / Alenka Zupancic 155
9. Enjoy Your Stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII / Oliver Feltham 179
10. More Thoughts for the Times on War and Death: The Discourse of Capitalism in Seminar XVII / Juliet Flower MacCannell 195
11. The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis / Dominique Hecq 216
III. Discourses of Contemporary Life
12. Symptom and Discourse / Éric Laurent 229
13. Common Markets and Segregation / Marie-Helene Brousse
14. The Intimate, the Extimate, and Psychoanalytic Discourse / Pierre-Gilles Gueguen 263
15. Bureaucratic Speech Acts and the University Discourse: Lacan’s Theory of Modernity / Geoff Boucher 274
16. The “Revolution” in Advertising and University Discourse / Matthew Sharpe 392
Contributors 315
Index 319

Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg, eds.