Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance (eBook)

Raul Moncayo is a supervising analyst of the The Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. Dr. Moncayo has been adjunct faculty in several local universities over the years, continues to supervise doctoral dissertations, travelled as a visiting professor across North American, European, and South American universities and is the author of five books.

Introduction: Lacan’s RSI and Freud’s Three-Dimensional Theory of Mind/Psyche.- Chapter I: The Clear Screen, Perception, and the Nature of Inscription.- Chapter II:Instinct and Drive in Darwin and Freud, Contemporary Biology, and Psychoanalysis.- Chapter III: The Grammatical Voice of the Drive.- Chapter IV: Sign, Object, Image, Index, Representamen/Representations/ Signifiers, Interpretants, and Habit, in the work of Pierce and Lacan.- Chapter V: The Ego, the Person, the Self, and the Subject.- Chapter VI: The Symbolic in the early Lacan as a Cybernetic Machine, as Automaton and Tyché, and the two forms of the Real.- Chapter VII: Like a Fool, Like a Bungler: Elucidating Lacan’s L’Étourdit.- Chapter VIII: The Rise and Fall of Cognition and the Realization of the larger Mind of Unconscious Knowing (Savoir).- Chapter IX: The Other Psychoanalysis and the Other in Psychoanalysis.- Chapter X: The Clinical Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.- Chapter XI: The Lacanian School as an Organizational Structure; Raul Moncayo and Dany Nobus.