Supposing the Subject

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A collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and consider contemporary ideas that revive the subject, including queer theory and national identity. Contents......Page 7 Introduction [JOAN COPJEC]......Page 9 Notes......Page 14 1. Subjection and Subjectivation [ÉTIENNE BALIBAR]......Page 17 Notes......Page 30 2. Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason [JOAN COPJEC]......Page 32 The Phallic Function......Page 40 The Female Side: Mathematical Failure......Page 44 The Male Side: The Dynamical Failure......Page 52 Sexual Difference and the Superego......Page 57 Notes......Page 59 3. Who's Who? Introducing Multiple Personality [MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN]......Page 61 Symptomology......Page 63 Aetiology......Page 65 Therapy......Page 67 Epidemiology......Page 68 Discussion......Page 71 (Provisional) Propositions for a Hypnotic Cogito......Page 73 Notes......Page 77 4. The Phrenology of Spirit [MLADEN DOLAR]......Page 80 Notes......Page 97 5. Is There a Cause of the Subject? [SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK]......Page 100 Contradiction as the Index of Theoretical Truth......Page 101 'Repressive desubllmatlon'......Page 105 Habermas: Psychoanalysis as Self-reflection......Page 111 The Lacanlan Solution: Objet a as Cause......Page 116 Notes......Page 120 Castration, the Superego and Feminine Desire......Page 122 The Feminine Superego?......Page 124 Hysteria and the Feminine Subject: The Handmaid's Tale......Page 126 The Ideal Unisex Ego and the Blsexed I: The Truth of the Subject and the Freudian Thing......Page 131 Freud, Again......Page 133 Lacan, Again......Page 134 Lacan II/Atwood I/Freud 0......Page 137 Notes......Page 144 7. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity [ELIZABETH GROSZ]......Page 149 Systematic Structures of Power......Page 150 Sex and Sexuality......Page 154 Affective Bodies......Page 156 Regimes of Sexuality......Page 159 Pleasures......Page 161 Pleasure and Subversion......Page 165 Notes......Page 169 8. The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex [CHARLES SHEPHERDSON]......Page 174 Psychoanalysis and History......Page 177 The Organism and the Body......Page 183 Transsexuallty......Page 187 Transvestite and Transsexual......Page 195 Notes......Page 197 9. Father, Can't You See I'm Filming? [PARVEEN ADAMS]......Page 201 Notes......Page 215 10. Anxious Nations, Nervous States [HOMI K. BHABHA]......Page 217 Notes......Page 232 Notes on Contributors......Page 234 Index......Page 237