Translator's Note
Abbreviations
Introduction: Translating Jouissance
Silvia Rosman
Part I. Theory
1. Jouissance: From Lacan to Freud
In the Beginning . . .
Jouissance in Freud
A Return to Freudian Beginnings
Beyond Pleasure
2. Jouissology, Logic of Jouissance
Between Jouissance and Language
Jouissance Is (Not) the Satisfaction of a Drive
Speech: Diaphragm of Jouissance
The Thing and Object @
Castration and the Name-of-the-Father
The Barriers to Jouissance
The "Causation of the Subject" or Beyond Angst
3. Jouissance and Sexuality
Equivocations of Sexuality
Jouissance of Being, Phallic Jouissance and Jouissance of the Other
Castration as Cause
The Three Jouissance(s) and the Mobius Strip
Freud (Lacan) or Foucault
4. Deciphering Jouissance
Jouissance Is Ciphered
Letter 52
Psychoanalysis in Proust's Way: Jouissance and Time
Part II. The Clinic
5. Jouissance and Hysteria
The Psychoanalyst and the Hysteric
In Function of Jouissance
Hysteria and Savoir
6. Perversion, Disavowal of Jouissance
The "Positive" Side of Neurosis?
The Perverse Phantasm: Savoirjouir
Perversion and Feminine Jouissance
7. @-diction of Jouissance
Psychosis Is Not Chosen
Psychosis and Discourse
Drug @-diction
8. Jouissance and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Experience
A Langagière Practice
Pro(pulsions) and Their Vicissitudes
The Duty of Desire
The Act and Guilt
The Immunological Analogy
Letter to His Father
Give Up on Desire?
For Three Jouissance(s), Three Superegos
On Love in Psychoanalysis
Notes
Index

Néstor A. Braunstein is an Argentine Mexican psychoanalyst, author, professor, and editor who has published extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual arts, and literature, and whose work has been translated into French and Portuguese. In English, his work appears in The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Silvia Rosman teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her books include Being in Common: Nation, Subject, and Community in Latin American Literature and Culture.