Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Finding sexual difference -- Towards psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysing sexual difference -- 2 Psychoanalysis and sexual difference -- A gift of language -- The discourse of the other -- Getting back to the subject -- The Lacanian principle -- 3 Inside the dream -- The origins of psychoanalysis -- Masculine identifications: from Joseph to Moses -- The body of the dream -- The dream of Irma's Injection -- Disruption and the dream -- 4 Masculine mastery and fantasy, or the meaning of the phallus -- Phallocentric theory -- Phallic functions -- or, how men and women find out who they are -- The woman for the man -- 5 The seeds of masculine sexuality -- Deconstructing masculinity -- Sexuality and subjectivity -- On dominant abuse -- Masculinity dissolved -- His-story -- Desire and the mother -- Abuse again -- Sex and sexuality -- 6 Transgressing sexual difference -- Speaking without words -- Subject and object -- Time and space -- Speaking with the mother -- 'Their "Symbolic" exists' -- Transgressing sexual difference -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.