A Reading of Anxiety

Christian Fierens is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist based in Belgium. He holds a PhD on psychosis in Freud’s work and has published several books on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, including The Soul of Narcissism and The Jouissance Principle, both published by Routledge.

Introduction

PART ONE: Anxiety and the real

1: Anxiety as "real", starting from the signifier

2: The real and non-knowledge

PART TWO: Anxiety and act involve object a

3: Anxiety, act and object a

4: Object a and the transference

PART THREE: The desire of the analyst

5: Lack: an introduction to the desire of the analyst

6: Anxiety and the desire of the analyst

PART FOUR: Minus phi and object a

7: Minus phi and the desire of the female analyst

8: Minus phi and the scopic object

PART FIVE: The vocal object

9: The central role of the vocal object

10: The vocal object a in the structure and in the clinic

PART SIX: The truth of anxiety

11: Obsessional neurosis in the structure

12: From anxiety to the Names-of-the-Father

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