Edited volume that discusses the relationship of philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coeditor of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and author of Tarrying with the Negative, both published by Duke University Press.

Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1
Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept
1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 11
2. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupan¿i¿ 41
3. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj Žižek 74
Part II. Cogito's Body
4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 117
5. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Božovi¿ 149
6. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175
Part III.
7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 199
8. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 225
9. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj Žižek 247
Notes on Contributors 275
Index 277