Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud''s work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst''s inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the...