The Theory of Absence

PATRICK FUERY is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Media at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Theories of Desire (1994) and the editor of Representation, Discourse and Desire (1994).

Acknowledgments
Preface
Negativity, Negation, and Dialectics: Towards a Semantic Model of the Dialectics of Absence
The Subject of Desire and Absence
The True Aim of Desire: Subjectivity, Desire, and Absence
Desire, Pleasure, and the Subject of Absence
"That Perilous Necessity": Towards a Metaphysics of Subjectivity and Absence
Desire and the Voice: Speaking Absences and the Absence of Speech
Absence and the Gaze
The Source of Tears and the Body's Bitter Light: Absence and the Scopic Drive
Heterology of the Gaze and the System of Eclipse
Towards a Semiotics of Absence
On the Structure of the Sign and Absence
Love and the Symphysis of Absence: Processes of Absence in the Formation and Operation of Codes
Toward a Typology of the Absent Signifier
Bibliography
Index