Main description:

Presented in a unique conversational style.
Introductory and accessible for readers who are new to Lacanian ideas.
Each chapter considers a specific aspect of life, ethics and psychoanalysis.

Contents:

1 The Human Condition - and in Light of It: Psychoanalysis as Ethics

2 The Simple Pleasure of the Body

3 On Pleasure and Restraint

4 The Ethics of Renunciation

5 The Subject, the Other, and the Object Between Them

6 Oedipus

7 Being Important or Rejected

8 Orphanhood and Theology

9 Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic

10 A Hike on the Mountain

11 On Anxiety

12 More About Jouissance, and a Little About Depression

13 Different Reasons for Depression

14 Buddhist Ethics and Relativistic Ethics Meet: Before Parting

15 At Last - Love

16 And Finally: Death