Freud As Philosopher Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	List of Bibliographical Abbreviations Used in the Text
	Introduction: Returning to Metapsychology	1
Ch. 1	Toward the Unthought Ground of Thought	17
	Monet's Pursuit of the "Enveloppe"	18
	The World of the Water Lilies	21
	The Class of 1890: James, Bergson, and Nietzsche	26
	Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology	37
	Heidegger: The Disposition of Being	43
	The Gestaitist Ontology of Merleau-Ponty	54
	The Unthought Ground of Thought in the Freudian Unconscious	61
Ch. 2	Between the Image and the Word	71
	In the Shadow of the Image	72
	The Unconscious Play of the Signifier	78
	From Image to Sign	86
	The Ratman's Phantasy	94
	The Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis	99
	In the Navel of the Dream	105
	The Dream's Solution	114
	Circulation in the Psychical Apparatus	119
	The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles	124
Ch. 3	The Freudian Dialectic	133
	The Formative Power of the Image	134
	Imaginary Alienation	141
	Aggressivity and the Death Drive	150
	The Agency of Death in the Signifier	154
	Language Acquisition and the Oedipus Complex	163
	Psychoanalysis and the Theory of Sacrifice	175
	Toward a Lacanian Theory of Sacrifice	183
Ch. 4	The Freudian Thing	191
	A Love Triangle	193
	The Thing about the Other	198
	Thing or No-thing	209
	Speaking of the Thing	216
	Freud avec Jakobson	224
Ch. 5	Figurations of the Object a	241
	The Object-Cause of Desire	242
	"You don't love me ... you just don't give a shit."	248
	Between the Look and the Gaze	252
	Why One and One Make Four	261
	How the Real World Became a Phantasy	271
	Conclusion	281
	Notes	297
	Bibliography	313
	Index	323