Ethics Of The Real Book

	Foreword: Why Is Kant Worth Fighting For?	vii
	Introduction	1
1	The (Moral-) Pathology of Everyday Life	7
2	The Subject of Freedom	21
	What freedom?	22
	What subject?	25
3	The Lie	43
	Kant and 'the right to lie'	43
	The Unconditional	53
	The Sadeian trap	58
4	From the Logic of Illusion to the Postulates	64
	The 'stormy ocean' of illusion	64
	'Person also means mask'	68
	The passage to the postulates	75
5	Good and Evil	79
	Fantasy within the limits of reason alone	79
	The logic of suicide	82
	Degrees of evil	86
	Like angels, like devils	90
	The act as 'subjectivation without subject'	96
6	The Act and Evil in Literature	106
	The case of Valmont	107
	The case of Don Juan	121
7	Between the Moral Law and the Superego	140
	The quantum of affect	140
	The sublime and the logic of the superego	149
	The status of the law	160
8	Ethics and Tragedy in Psychoanalysis	170
	Some preliminary remarks	170
	Oedipus, or the Outcast of the Signifier	175
	The theft of desire--and the mother in exchange	175
	The death of the Thing	187
	What is a father?	192
	What shall we do with Oedipus?	197
	The hostage of the word	200
	Sygne, or the Enjoyment of the Remainder	211
	Ethics and terror	213
	Enjoyment--my neighbour	221
	The Real in ethics	234
	From pure desire to the drive	238
9	Thus ...	249
	Index	261