By focusing on the underlying dynamic that binds clinical practice, theoretical work, and institutional security in Lacanian psychoanalysis today, Gabriel Tupinamba is able to locate sites for conceptual innovation that have been ignored by the discipline, such as the understanding of the role of money in clinical practice.

AcknowledgmentsForeword: For Lacan, against Lacanian ideology, by Slavoj ŽižekIntroduction1. Psychoanalysis and Politics after 20172. The Basis of Lacanian Ideology3. The History of an Impasse in Lacanian Thinking4. The Generic Perspective in Psychoanalysis5. The Political Economy of Clinical Practice6. The Form of the Other and Its Institutional Enclosure7. Groundwork for a Metapsychology of Ideas8. The Idea of the PasseConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

“Gabriel TupinambÁ is one of the most talented and creative psychoanalysts of this new generation of Brazilian Lacanians. His rigorous style combines a broad domain of dense areas of Lacan's work with the necessary courage to renew psychoanalysis in the face of the acute problems posed by the clinic's social reality . . . Recovering the narrative force of clinical accounts, he manages to adjust Lacan's logical-formalistic pretensions with a beneficial conception on the multiplicity of practices that claim the name of psychoanalysis." —Christian Dunker, author of The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic: A History of its Structure and Power”There are books that are written, and there are books that absolutely needed to be written. TupinambÁ’s The Desire of Psychoanalysis definitely falls in this last category. It is a groundbreaking interrogation of psychoanalysis and of how the latter is situated in the broader conceptual and social context. Coming at exactly the right moment, and written by someone who is himself a psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist, The Desire of Psychoanalysis is bound to shatter the status quo, which psychoanalysis sometimes all to easily gives in to. An outstanding book.” —Alenka Zupancic, author of What IS Sex?