The Law of Desire On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’ /

• Main Author: Nobus, Dany (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Literature > Philosophy.; Ethics.; Psychoanalysis.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Psychology, Comparative.; Comparative Psychology.; Sexual Behavior.; Moral Philosophy.; Literary Theory.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed roadmap for each section of the essay, including clarifications of the allusions, implicit borrowings and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. A New Ethical System
• 2. Lacan Reads Kant
• 3. Sade’s Kantian Maxim
• 4. Regarding the Pain of Others
• 5.Ineluctable Libertine Pleasures
• 6. The Sadean Fantasy
• 7. Surely, it is Just a Fantasy!
• 8. Sade’s Practical Reason
• 9. The Law Sustains Desire
• 10. Sade Against Kant
• 11. The Moral Principle of Desire
• 12. Desire and Happiness
• 13. Lacan Against Sade
• 14. Some More Effort
• Conclusion. .