This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers access to the author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world. --From publisher's description.

Axes of the analytic subversion. The master and the hysteric ; Knowledge, a means of jouissance ; Truth, the sister of jouissance ; The Lacanian field --Beyond the Oedipus complex. The castrated master ; Oedipus and Moses and the father of the horde ; From myth to structure ; Yahweh's ferocious ignorance -- The other side of contemporary life. Interview on the steps of the Pantheon ; Furrows in the alethosphere ; The impotence of truth ; The power of the impossibles -- Analyticon ; Monsieur Caquot's presentation. Translator's Note -- I Production of the four discourses -- Axes of the Analytic Subversion -- II The master and the hysteric -- III Knowledge, a means of jouissance -- IV Truth, the sister of jouissance -- V The Lacanian field -- Beyond the Oedipus Complex -- VI The castrated master -- VII Oedipus and Moses and the father of the horde -- VIII From myth to structure -- IX Yahweh's ferocious ignorance -- The Other Side of Contemporary Life -- X Interview on the steps of the Pantheon -- XI Furrows in the alethosphere -- XII The impotence of truth -- XIII The power of the impossibles -- Appendixes -- A Analyticon -- B Monsieur Caquot's presentation -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.