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[...]
Richard Boothby forces us to reconsider our concepts of masculinity and femininity by placing them in relation to Freud's theory of Life and Death drives. He explores feminist critiques of Freud to reveal new and specific responses to questions that have shaped contemporary understanding of feminism[...]