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Book SynopsisFreud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive..
Table of ContentsForeword: A Paraliax View on Drives, by Slavoj Zizek; Preface: The Unbearable Burden of Libidinal Liberation; Introduction: The Critique of Pure Enjoymanl - or, Jouissance does not exist; Part One: Metapsychology, Temporality, and Structure; Chapter One: The Temporal Repressed in Freadian Psychoanalysis; Chapter Two: The Temporal Logic of Jacques Lacan; Chapter Three: Psychoanalysis and Modern Rationalism; Chapter Four: Kant end the Conditions of Possibility for the Psychoanalytic Subject; Part Two: The Splitting of the Drive; Chapter Five: The Fundamental Conflicts of Psychoanalysis; Chapter Six: The Unfolding of the Freudian Drive; Chapter Seven: The Lacanian Drive Topas; Chapter Eight: The Barred Trieb; Chapter Nine: The Axis of Iteration (S-P); Chapter Ten: The Axis of Alteration (A-O); Conclusion: The Uniquely Human Double Bind