Full Description
This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of the drive, with editorial headnotes throughout. The introduction to the collection provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and history of the drive as a concept and is followed by discussion of clinical cases. Critical Essays on the Drive then assesses theoretical aspects, with chapters by world-leading Lacanian scholars. The final parts of the book explore the history of drive theory and its impact on art and culture, debunking the notion that the drive is a dormant or defunct concept and considering its applications by artists, academics, and cultural theorists.
Critical Essays on the Drive will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists in practice and in training. It will also be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic and Lacanian theory, critical theory, and cultural theory.
Contents
Preface 1. Introduction: Debunking the Drive The History of the Drive 2. On the Very German-ness of Freud's Trieb 3. Freud's Third Step: On Beyond the Pleasure Principle 4. Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle and the Death Drive: A Concise Overview 5. Ex-Pulsion: On the History of Lay Analysis and Gay Analysts in the United States 6. The Nameless Drive The Theory of the Drive 7. Problems with Drive Theory 8. The Drive as Speech 9. La Vie en Rose: On the Drive, Between Life and Death 10. Agitations and Cuts of Our Dark Ally 11. The Skin as the Source of the Dermic Drive: Modes of Dermic Punctuation in the Containment of Meaning 12. The Respiratory Drive: Psychoanalysis's Ground Zero 13. And Yet It Moves 14. The Look and the Drive 15. The Voice and Its Drive 16. On Self-Relating Negativity: The Lacanian Death Drive The Drive in the Clinic, Culture and Art 17. Beyond the Breach: Drive in the Case of a Traumatic Neurosis 18. Where the Image Falls: The Drive of the Living Body in Analysis 19. The Liminal and the (Oral) Drive: Neurotic Tensions and Neo-liberal Recuperations 20. The Drive as Montage: Freud, Lacan, Moths, and Poetry
