Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Origin and End of the Mind -- 2. Attachment -- 3. Evolutionary Psychology -- 4. Mentalisation -- References -- Part One Origin and End: Relations between Psychic Origins and Psychic Normativity -- The Missing Link betweenPsychoanalysis and Attachment Theory:Michael Balint's New Beginning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Attachment in the Work of Melanie Klein -- 3. Michael Balint: Primary Object-Love and the 'New Beginning' -- 4. 'New Beginning' and the Kleinian 'Positions' -- 5. A Structural Confusion of Tongues? -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Quasi-beliefs and Crazy Beliefs: Subdoxastic States and the 'Special Characteristics' of the Unconscious -- 1. Vertical and Horizontal Explanations -- 2. Informational Encapsulation and the Interpreter's Perspective -- 3. Subdoxastic States -- 4. The special characteristics and the therapeutic project -- References -- Paradoxes of Normativity in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Or: Is Castration Necessary? -- 1. Lacan and the Problem of Normativity -- 2. The Dialectic of Desire -- 3. The Dialectic of Imaginary Rivalry -- 4. Symbolic Identification -- 5. Lacanian Anthropology -- 6. Structuralism and Objective Normativity -- 7. Motivations for Symbolic Castration -- 8. The Paradox of the Real -- References -- Lacan and Ethics: The Ends of Analysis and the Production of the Subject -- 1. Freud and Lacan on the Ends of Analysis -- 2. Function and Field of Speech and Language -- 3. Seminar XI -- 4. The Sinthome -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part Two Psychoanalysisand Evolution -- The Ultimate Causes of Paranoia:A Cross-pathological and Psychodynamic Approach -- 1. Towards a Darwinian Model of Paranoia -- 2. Persecutory Thoughts and Megalomania.

3. A Darwinian Psychodynamics of Paranoid Schizophrenia? -- 4. Conclusion: The Freudian Roots, the Advantages, and the Shortcomings of a Darwinian Psychodynamics (of Paranoia) -- References -- Reinterpreting Freud's Genealogy of Culture -- 1. Nietzsche: Naturalism and Genealogy -- 1.1 Human, All too Human (1878) -- 1.2. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) -- 2. Freud on cultural transmission -- 2.1 Freud on culture and psychopathology between 1910 and 1915 -- 2.2. Freud on Moses -- Conclusion -- References -- The Thanatosis of Enlightenment -- References -- Part Three Philosophy and the Psychosexual Subject -- Poetic Pleasure, Psychosis, and Perversion: Freud on Fore-pleasure -- References -- The Origins and Ends of 'Sex' -- 1. Freud: the Origins of Sex -- 2. Lacan: The Ends of Sex -- References -- Love as Ontology: Psychoanalysis against Philosophy -- 1. Preamble: The Indifference of Psychoanalysis to Ontology -- 2. From the symptom to the transference -- 3. 'What is your ontology?' -- 4. Terminably interminable -- References -- Psychoanalysis: A Non-Ontology of the Human -- 1. Today's Ontologies -- 2. The Axiom of Psychoanalysis -- 3. Psychoanalysis: a non-ontology of the human -- 4. Re-ontologizing the Non-ontology of the Human -- References -- List of Contributors.