Introduction I / Richard Feldstein -- Introduction II / Willy Apollon -- The politics of desire -- The fetish of the party / Slavoj Zizek -- A lasting heresy, the failure of political desire / Willy Apollon -- Subject of the gaze for another gaze / Richard Feldstein -- Jouissance, desire, and the law -- Facing fascism: a feminine politics of jouissance / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- A verdict on the paternal function: law, the paternal metaphor, and paternity law / Judith Roof -- The politics of mastery -- The discourse of the master / Ellie Ragland -- Literary representation -- Othello's lost handkerchief: where psychoanalysis finds itself / Elizabeth J. Bellamy -- Reading Hamlet with Lacan / Bruce Fink -- Kundera and Lacan: drive, desire, and oneiric narration / Maire Jaanus -- Fatal conjunctions: gendering representations of death / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Graphic representation -- Dali and Lacan: painting the imaginary landscapes / Hanjo Berressem -- Musical representation -- Orpheus and Eurydice: muses of music / Peter Widmer -- Filmic representation -- Aliens and the psychotic experience / Danielle Bergeron -- Aliens or staging the trauma / Lucie Cantin -- Cross-genre representation -- Lost objects: Duras's minimalist cinema of remembrance / Catherine Portuges