PART I: DEFINITIONS AND CONTEXTS -- Chapter 1: "Bestiarum Vocabulum Lacaniensis: A Concise Outline of Psychoanalytic Zoology" by Dany Nobus (Brunel University London) -- Chapter 2: "Man is not Entirely in Man" by Kiarina Kordela (Macalester University) -- Chapter 3: "Freud, Lacan, and the Human Nonhumanity of Coitus Interruptus" by Jamieson Webster (Eugene Lang College and New York University) -- Chapter 4: "'L'extermination de tout symbolisme des cieux': Reading the Lacanian Letter as Inhuman 'Apparatus' and its Implications for Ecological Thinking" by Kevin Andrew Spicer (University of St. Francis) -- Chapter 5: "Affective Posthumanism" by Marie-Louise Angerer (University of Potsdam) -- Chapter 6: "The Undead: Lacan and Vico, the Critical Link" by Donald Kunze (Penn State University) -- Chapter 7: "The Sovereign Signifier: Agamben and the Nonhuman" by Paul Eisenstein (Otterbein University) -- Chapter 8: "Lacan and the Mechanism of Full Speech" by Ed Pluth (California State University, Chino) -- PART 2: APPLICATIONS -- Chapter 9: "Like an Animal: A Simile Instead of a Subject" by Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) -- Chapter 10: "A horse-no worse? Phobia and the failure of human metaphors in psychoanalysis" by Celeste Pietrusza and Jess Dunn (Duquesne University) -- Chapter 11: "Beckett's 'Marionette Theater': Psychoanalysis, Ontological Violence and The Language of Desubjectification in Malloy and Malone Dies" by Amanda Duncan (Pacific University) -- Chapter 12: "Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?" by Calum Neill (Edinburgh Napier University) -- Chapter 13: "ASMR Mania, Trigger Politics, and the Anxiety of Digital Repletion" by Hugh Manon (Clark University) -- Chapter 14: "For the Love of Nonhumanity: Transference and the Anxiety of Algorithmic Critique" by Jonathan Michael Dickstein (Independent Scholar).

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject; explore implications of Lacanian teachings in relation to the environment, freedom, and biopolitics; and investigate the subjective enjoyments of and anxieties over nonhumans in literature, film, and digital media. This innovative volume fills a valuable gap in the literature, extending investigations into an important and topical strand of the social sciences for both analytic and pedagogical purposes.