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Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud
By Richard Boothby
Copyright 1991
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The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freud’s theory – the concept of a self-destructive drive or ‘death instinct’.
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Bibliographic abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1 The Enigma of the ‘Death Drive’ 2 Lacanian Reflections on Narcissism 3 The Energetics of the Imaginary 4 Rereading Beyond the Pleasure Principle 5 The Unconscious Structured Like a Language 6 The Formations of the Unconscious 7 Metapsychology in the Perspective of Metaphysics 8 Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Richard Boothby
