The Jouissance Principle Kant Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious 1st Edition by Christian Fierens, Kieran O Meara ISBN 9781000478617 1000478610

Section I Reading Kant

Part I Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785): the moral law

Introduction: the principle as principle

1 Good will, duty, and the moral law: on the basis of popular moral philosophy

2 Analysis of the moral law: unearthing the metaphysics of morals based on popular moral philosophy

Part II Critique of Practical Reason (1788): the principle of practical reason

Introduction: the place and structure of practical reason (and of the unconscious)

The analytic in the first and second critiques

The dialectic in the first and second critiques

3 The principle of the autonomy of the moral law (… and of jouissance)

4 The concept of good/evil

5 Respect (Achtung)

6 The necessary articulation of the principle of morality with the pleasure principle

7 How to promote the principle of the moral law (and of jouissance)

Conclusion of the doctrine of method

Section II A reading of Lacan

Part I The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959–1960): the real

8 Critique of “ethics” centred on happiness and perfection

9 The hole in reality, the real and the thing

10 The universality of the moral law

11 The human being’s essential relationship to the Thing

Part II “Kant with Sade” (1962–1963): the object a

12 Introduction to Kant and to Sade

13 Sade’s contribution to psychoanalysis

14 Lacan’s struggle against Kant

15 The practice of psychoanalysis

Section III Practice of the unconscious

16 From one reading the other on Kant and on Lacan

17 The unconscious and the jouissance principle

18 How can the jouissance peculiar to the unconscious be presented?

19 It must be made: The practice of the unconscious

Conclusion: The jouissance principle and the object a

Bibliography

Index