Lalangue, Sinthome, Jouissance, and Nomination

'An amazing exploration of Lacan's seminar on the Sinthome packed with insight into structures of psychosis and neurosis. A study that spans and makes use of a wide breadth of thinking about mental and psychic life and its expressions from the pre-Socratics and Aristotle through Freud, Joyce and beyond. You will find on virtually any page sentences to arrest your interest and stimulate mental-psychic adventures, a sense of going through door after door.'-- Michael Eigen, author of Under the Totem: In Search of a Path, The Sensitive Self, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, and Contact with the Depths'Refracted by Raul Moncayo's crystalline intellect, the distinctive hues of Lacan's Joyce seminar spread an intriguing light on the symptomatologies of neurosis and psychosis. This book is an indispensable guide to Seminar XXIII and beyond.'--Sigi Jottkandt, author of First Love: A Phenomenology of the One'This work represents one of the few initiatives in the Anglo-Saxon world to elucidate the structure of psychic space by constructing an access to the nature of mathematical relations. Finding pathways through the complexities of sexual love is notoriously difficult: Raul Moncayo shows how Lacan's psychoanalytic results have found some solutions to many of these difficulties and problems. Lacan formulated the spaces of the mind by using instruments such as his graph of desire: Moncayo's book takes further the investigation of the "not-both", which has been fundamental to philosophy, and to mathematics and cosmology, since the time of Parmenides.'--Bernard Burgoyne, Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University