Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacan’s notion of extimité. This collection is the first sustained interrogation of the concept of extimacy, comprising contributions on various topics by leading and emerging philosophers and scholars of psychoanalytic theory from around the world.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Concept of Extimacy Nadia Bou Ali and Surti Singh 1. The Ontological Limbo: Three Notes on Extimacy and Ex-sistence Samo TomŠič 2. Extimacy and das Ding: The Outside-In of the Void Richard Boothby 3. What, If Anything, Is Authority?” Mladen Dolar 4. A-Sexual Violence and Systemic Enjoyment Alenka Zupančič 5. “For Thought to Dwell Where Evils Have No Entry”: On Oedipus and the Extimacy of Anger Amanda Holmes 6. On Ambivalence as a Key Freudian Concept: The Vaterkomplex’s Edifice Alejandro Cerda-Rueda 7. What is a Body? A Question between Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro 8. Hate Your Neighbor as You Hate Yourself: How to Think Psychoanalytically about Hate, Racism, and Exclusion Patricia Gherovici 9. Objet a and the Possibilities of Political Resistance: Extimacy, Anxiety, and Political Action Andreja Zevnik 10. Transference and its Discontents: Lacan and the Ex-timate Place of Politics Vladimir Safatle Notes Index