Essays on the Pleasures of Death

In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan''s theories, while maintaining that crucial differences between them still exist. Ragland argues, however, that Lacan''s "return to Freud" gave coherence to concepts which Freud could never explain: psychosis, narcissism, the body and the death drive. Drawing upon Lacan''s untranslated seminars throu...