Recent literature and book reviews

book reviews

-

Book Reviews Enduring Death: Hauntings of Literature and Art

The subtitle of Robert Rowland Smith’s DeathDrive announces a ghostly Freudian haunting of literature and art. This visitation by Freud, coming without full authoritative presence, drives Smith to posit a compelling and creative – albeit strange and spectral – reading of aesthetics and its relations to death and the deathly. But Freud is not the only ghostly presence in this book, absent presen...

Book and Resource Reviews

Abstracts and Book Reviews

S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

Book Reviews and Abstracts

We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...