Marc De Kesel is Senior Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sigi Jöttkandt is coeditor of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands.

Introduction

1. A Theory of the Subject

The Object Relations Theory and Its Moral Premises
Lacan's Target: Maurice Bouvet
Lacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the Subject
Ethics and Phantasm
Introducing a Real Object

2. Crucial Problems

One Ethical Demand versus Another
A New Form of Guilt?
A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?

3. Aristotle Revisited

The Interval between Aristotle and Freud
Aristotle and Freud against Bentham
Pleasure, Reality, and Logos

4. An Intimately Distant "Thing"

"Das Ding"
A Matter of Distance
How Much Does a Thing Weigh?

5. A Critique of Pure Practical Reason

Kant's Critique of Morals
Lacan and the Critique of Practical Reason
The Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"

6. The Weight of Enjoyment

Pleasure
Sade
The Commandment to Love Your Neighbor
An Ethics of Singularity

7. Sublimation

From Doom to Dame
An "Object Relational" Concept of Sublimation
Courtly Love
Culture as Sublimation
Sublimation and Ethics

8. Radiant Antigone

An Anamorphic Glance at Tragedy
The Subject in the Picture
Desire in the Picture

9. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

The Analytic Toll
Measure without Measure

Epilogue
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index