Main description:

Benvenuto clearly explains Lacan's theories as they apply to the case. Discusses a unique case, which involved three leading psychoanalysts of the twentieth century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan. Compellingly presented in the style of a police investigation.

Contents:

1. Lacan and Kris's Plagiarist 2. The Plagiarised Plagiarist 3. The Parrying Ego 4. The Reclaiming of Death 5. Acting out and passage a l'acte 6. Foreclosed Orality 7. The Property of Ideas 8. The Freedom of the Slave 9. Statement and Enunciation 10. French Controversies 11. The Missing Name 12. ...perseverare diabolicum est 13. Understanding is Misunderstanding 14. The Party and the Pope... 15. Anti-Americanism 16. Eating Nothingness 17. The Raft of Skinny Virgins 18. "Annie Reich's" Countertransference 19. Anna Freud's Counter-Defence 20. The Freudian Legacy 21. Interpretation and Truth 22. Laughing Unconscious 23. Reformatory Analysis 24. Adaptive Analysis 25. Analytic Idealities 26. A non-psychological Psychoanalysis 27. Psychoanalytic Exhibit