Tim Themi has a PhD in philosophy and teaches at Deakin University in Australia.

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Introduction

1. The Deflationary Ontology of Lacan and Nietzche

1.1 Lacan's Tripartite Schema with Nietzche's Critique of Plato's Good
1.2 Lacan's Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotle's Good

2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong

2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents
2.2 Lacan's Treatment of Sublimation
2.3 Nietzche's Distinction between Weak and Strong

3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophocles' Antigone

3.1 Creon against Antigone: In the Name of the Good
3.2 Antigone against Creon: Lacan, the Beautiful, a Second Death
3.3 Before the Good: Nietzche's Strong Dionysian Catharsis

4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics in Socrates' Alcibiades

4.1 Lacan's Analysis of Symposium Speeches Prior to Socrates
4.2 The Speech of Socrates: Denaturalizing with Diotima
4.3 Enter Alcibiades: Renaturalizing with Object Agalma

5. God of the Good: Christocentric Oedipal Morality

5.1 The Deaths of God in Lacan's Seminar VII
5.2 Recapitulating a Decade Later in Seminar XVII
5.3 The Nietzschean Appraisal from The Anti-Christ

6. Service of Goods: Nature and Desire in Modern Science

6.1 Lacan's Critique of Science in Seminar XVII
6.2 Nietzche's Empiricist-centered Positive Comments on Science
6.3 Lacan's Mathematics-centered Positive Comments on Science

Conclusion

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