Foreword, by Eric Santner
Prologue: Epistemology and Psychotheology
I. Introduction
II. In Conflict with the Negative
1- Trauma, Interpellation, and Enigmatic Signifiers
2- Freud and Kant: Illusions of the Mind and Illusions of Reason
3- Madness and the Loss of Language: Daniel P. Schreber and the Failure of Symbolic Investiture
4- Hegel: Negativity as a Structural Moment of the Concept
5- The Metaphysics of Contingency
III. The Human Being and the Symbolic Order
1- In the Mirror, the Image of my Enemy
2- Lacan’s Graph of Interpellation
3- Infinite Desire
IV. Ideology as Ontology
1- Sublime Objects
2- Fantasy Maintenance and Transgression
3- Longing for Leadership. The Time of Haste
4- Betrayal in Times of Overdetermination
V. Enjoyment as an Ontological Factor
1- Jouissance
2- In Violation of the Pleasure Principle
3- The Thing
List of Illustrations
Bibliography