A major new translation of one of the most influential psychoanalytic works of modern times. Acknowledgments vii Translator's Note ix Bibliographical References in Chronological Order xii The Mirror Stage as Formative of the i Function, as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 3(7) Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis 10(21) The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis 31(76) The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis 107(31) The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud 138(31) On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis 169(46) The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power 215(56) The Signification of the Phallus 271(10) The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious 281(32) Translator's Endnotes 313(44) Classified Index of the Major Concepts 357(7) Jacques-Alain Miller Commentary on the Graphs 364(4) Jacques-Alain Miller Index of Freud's German Terms 368(2) Index of Proper Names 370