Itzhak Benyamini teaches at the Tel Aviv University and Bezalel Jerusalem, Israel. He is the editor of Resling publishing house and the author of a number of books, including Narcissist Universalism (Bloomsbury, 2012) and A Critical Theology of Genesis (Palgrave, 2016).

Analyzes the way Lacan constructed his own intellectual discourse informed by Judeo-Christianity

Builds a panoramic view of the entire psychoanalytic discourse at the time of the foundational post-Freudian generation

Uncovers the coming-into-being of Lacan's key concepts

1 Introduction: Life and Celestial Jerusalem.- 2 The Clinical Experience and the Birth of the Symbolic Order: Lacan's Theoretical Leap in 1953.- 2.1 "The Neurotic's Individual Myth".- 2.2 "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis".- 3 "Family Complexes" (1938): An Early Model of the Return to Freud and the Conceptualization of the Father.- 3.1 The Splits of the Father in Freud's Theory: Between the Biological-Concrete and the Biological-Conceptual.- 3.2 Lacan's Criticism: The Family as a Sociocultural Institute.- 3.3 Splitting-and Saving-the-Father.- 3.4 The Father's Fall from Grace: The Invention of Psychoanalysis and Totalitarianism.- 3.5 Extracting the Jewish and Paternal in Bergson.- 3.6 Judaism and the Good Father.- 4 Return to the Logos: Between Dualism and Extimacy.- 4.1 The Logos: From Heraclitus to John.- 4.2 Logos in Christianity, Heidegger and Lacan.- 4.3 The Subject's Extimacy and the Other.- 4.4 In the Beginning Was the Word.- 4.5 The Body-SignifierDualism.- 4.6 The Logos and... Collective Dualism.- 4.7 Demythologization and the Logos.- 5 Lacan and Jung (1): The Threatening Affinity.- 5.1 The Slippery Slope to Occultism.- 5.2 Jung and Freud.- 5.3 Weltanschauung and Anti-ideology.- 5.4 The Non-libidinal Libido.- 5.5 The Imagined Similarity Between Lacan and Jung.- 5.6 Abstraction and Obscurity.- 5.6.1 Lacan and Jung's common denominator.- 5.6.2 Freud's Rejection of Jung's Style.- 6 Lacan and Jung (2): The Difference Between them and the Judeo-Christian Tradition.- 6.1 Lacan's Struggle Against Jungianism and the Difference Between the Imaginary and the Symbolic.- 6.2 Jung's Psychotic Imagination and Freud's Materialism.- 6.3 Anti-Jungianism and Anti-Gnosticism: Split in the Face of Harmony.- 7 Lévi-Strauss and Lacan following 'Totem and Taboo': What Is a Collective Unconscious?.- 7.1 The Anxiety of Metaphysics.- 7.2 The Jealous Father of 'Totem and Taboo'.- 7.3 The Processing of the Theory of Lévi-Strauss in the Lacanian Discourse.-7.4 Lacan Following Lévi-Strauss: The Mechanism of Language and the Metaphysical Danger.- 7.5 Lévi-Strauss and Lacan Rereading 'Totem and Taboo'.- 7.6 Jung, Freud, Lamarckism.- 7.7 Lacan's Processing of Freud's Lamarckism.- 8 "I am who I am" ("Eheye asher Eheye"): The Name-of-the-Father, the Other, and the Biblical Position.- 8.1 The Name-of-the-Father and Psychosis.- 8.2 Science and Psychoanalysis following the Cogito.- 8.3 Lacan's Seminar III: The God of Schreber.- 8.4 Seminar III: The Constitution of Modern Science and the Judeo-Christian Tradition.- 8.5 'I am who I am'.- 8.6 'I am who I am' in Seminar III.- 8.7 Following Racine and Jansenism.- 8.8 God of Speech and Desire.- 8.9 The Anti-Metaphysical Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Lacanianism.- 9 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Judaism, and Christianity: Reading Seminar VII.- 9.1 Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Biology.- 9.2 The Real, Jouissance, and the Thing.- 9.3 The Theological Origins of Lacanian Ethics.- 9.4 The Law and the Thing in the Bible and in Paul.- 9.5 "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself " and Freud's Theory of Narcissism.- 9.6 The Law of Love and the Death of the God-Father in Paul and Lacan.- 9.7 The Two Faces of Freud's Moses.- 10 The Pleasures of Baroque: An Epilogue on Late Lacan.