Contents: Preface by Jacques Lacan. Foreword by Antoine Vergote. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Synthesis of Lacanian Thought. Part I. Some Elements and Some Problems of General Linguistics. Part II. Lacan's Use of the General Data of Linguistics. Part III. The Constitution of the Subject by Accession to the Symbolic the Spaltung, The Role of the Oedipus in This Transition. Part IV. The Engendering of the Unconscious by Primal Repression (or Accession to Language) in Accordance with the Process of Metaphor. Part V. The Elementary Signifiers Constituting the Unconscious. Part VI. The Transition from Lack to Desire and to Demand. Part VII. The Mechanisms of the Formations of the Unconscious: Structure and Organization of the Unconscious Signifying Network. Part VIII. The General Conception of the Cure in Lacan. Part IX. The Lacanian Conception of Neurosis and Psychosis. Conclusion. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.