Un commentaire sur la théorie freudienne du plaisir, de l'appareil psychique et de l'imaginaire, ainsi qu'une définition de la méthodolie psychanalytique.

'The Seminar: Books I and II have a special place because of their value as an introduction to Lacan...[They] are a sure path of entry into Lacan's critique of ego psychology.

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics.