Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud

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.