This powerful memoir follows a father's journey to make sense of his world after losing his son to addiction and suicide.Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their twenty-three-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver's prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the...
At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, "Sex on the Couch "rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby presents here a fresh and engaging view of Freud. "Sex on the Couch" offers new insights into our concepts of masculinity and femininity, placing them in relation to Freud's theory of the Life and Death...
At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, "Sex on the Couch "rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby presents here a fresh and engaging view of Freud. "Sex on the Couch" offers new insights into our concepts of masculinity and femininity, placing them in relation to Freud's theory of the Life and Death...
bTitle:/b A Treatise on the Diseases of Cattle, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, ...
Using Jacques Lacan's work as a key, Boothby reassesses Freud's most ambitious-and misunderstood-attempt at a general theory of mental functioning: metapsychology
Originally published in 1991, Death and Desire presents in Lacanian terms a new integration of psychoanalytic theory in which the battery of key Freudian concepts ¿ from the dynamics of the Oedipus complex to the topography of ego, id, and superego ¿ are seen to intersect in Freud¿s most far-reaching and speculative formulation of a drive toward death. Boothby argues that Lacan repositioned the theme of death in psychoanalysis in relation to F...
