Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Deflationary Ontology of Lacan and Nietzsche -- 1.1 Lacan's Tripartite Schema with Nietzsche's Critique of Plato's Good -- 1.2 Lacan's Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotle's Good -- 2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong -- 2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents -- 2.2 Lacan's Treatment of Sublimation -- 2.3 Nietzsche's Distinction between Weak and Strong -- 3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophocles' Antigone -- 3.1 Creon against Antigone: In the Name of the Good -- 3.2 Antigone against Creon: Lacan, the Beautiful, a Second Death -- 3.3 Before the Good: Nietzsche's Strong Dionysian Catharsis -- 4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics In Socrates' Alcibiades -- 4.1 Lacan's Analysis of Symposium Speeches Prior to Socrates -- 4.2 The Speech of Socrates: Denaturalizing with Diotima -- 4.3 Enter Alcibiades: Renaturalizing with Object Agalma -- 5. God of the Good: Christocentric Oedipal Morality -- 5.1 The Deaths of God in Lacan's Seminar VII -- 5.2 Recapitulating a Decade Later in Seminar XVII -- 5.3 The Nietzschean Appraisal from The Anti-Christ -- 6. Service of Goods: Nature and Desire in Modern Science -- 6.1 Lacan's Critique of Science in Seminar XVII -- 6.2 Nietzsche's Empiricist-Centered Positive Comments on Science -- 6.3 Lacan's Mathematics-Centered Positive Comments on Science -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.