Freud as Philosopher Metapsychology After Lacan [Paperback]

Using Jacques Lacan's work as a key, Boothby reassesses Freud's most ambitious-and misunderstood-attempt at a general theory of mental functioning: metapsychologyRichard Boothbyis Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theoryin Lacan's Return to Freud (Routledge 1991).