"The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire."-Jacques Lacan Series Editor's Foreword
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Introduction
1(6)
Empty Gestures and Performatives: Lacan Confronts the CIA Plot
7(15)
The Interpassive Subject: Lacan Turns a Prayer Wheel
22(18)
From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut
40(21)
Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien
61(18)
Ego Ideal and Superego: Lacan as a Viewer of Casablanca
79(12)
`God is dead, but He doesn't Know it': Lacan Plays with Bobok
91(14)
The Perverse Subject of Politics: Lacan as a Reader of Mohammad Bouyeri
105(16)
Notes
121(4)
Chronology
125(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading
128(3)
Index
131
