Samo Tomši¿ works as researcher in the interdisciplinary laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). His research areas comprise psychoanalysis, structuralism, epistemology and contemporary French philosophy.

Andreja Zevnik is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include theories of subjectivity, political violence and resistance, aesthetic politics, law and psychoanalysis. She is a convener of Critical Global Politics research cluster and a member of editorial board for the Journal of Narrative Politics.

Introduction: Jacques Lacan: between politics and psychoanalysis I: Political significance of psychoanalysis 1. Lacan's "années érotiques" (1968/69) 2. Politics and Psychoanalysis in Times of the Inexistent Other II: Lacanian psychoanalysis and the political Oedipus and the intricacy of language and sexuality 3. Freud's Dream? Lacan and Oedipus 4. Not Even: Politics of Oedipus 5. Lacan's Imaginary 6. Sexual is Political 7. Object a and Politics Politics and Lacan's theory of discourses 8. On the Mastery in the Four Discourses 9. Discourse and the Master's lining: a Lacanian critique of globalizing biopolitics 10. Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Critique of Political Economy 11. Why should dreaming be a form of work? III: Psychoanalysis and Political Encounters 12. A Stranger Politics: towards a theory of resistance in psychoanalytical thought and practice 13. The Truth of Desire: Lack, Law and Phallus 14. Kant avec Sade: Ethics in a Trap of Politics and the Perversion of Law 15.Feminism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis 16. Divine Ex-Sistence 17. Metapsychology on the battlefield: political praxis as critique of the psychological essence of ideology 18. Lacan avec Bataille avec Nietzsche: a politics of the impossible?

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized a range of fields. The volume aims to introduce Lacan's vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner.
The volume is split into three distinct sections:
Psychoanalysis and Politics: this section will frame the discussion by providing general background of Lacan's engagement with politics and the political
Lacan and the Political: each chapter will focus on different key ideas and concepts in Lacan's thought including ethics, justice, discourse, object a, symptom, jouissance
Political Encounters: seeks to represent different ways of engaging with Lacanian thought and ways of adopting it to explain and comment on global political phenomena
Bringing together internationally recognised scholars in the field, this volume will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars in areas including critical theory, international relations, political theory and political philosophy.