Conclusion

Our very mastery seems to escape our mastery. —Michel Serres, Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time In parts 1 and 2 of this book, I investigated certain portions of the works of Freud, Loewald, and Lacan in order to fashion a drive theory hinted at by all but arrived at by none. In ...

The Psyche in Late Capitalism I

Employs the drive theory developed in the first three chapters toward a reinterpretation of the culture industry thesis of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised)

Uses Jacques Lacan's theory of the mirror stage as a point of departure for developing a new theory of aggressivity.

Introduction

Offers a defense of drive theory in general, using Freud's Wolfman case to illustrate the understandings of drive, psyche, and interpretation upheld in this project, and concludes with chapter summaries.

Between Need and Dread

Interprets Hans Loewald's developmental model as an ontogenic translation of the phylogenic narrative of Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life

A close reading of Sections IV and V of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a reading that produces initial articulations of the death drive and the drive to mastery.

The Psyche in Late Capitalism II

Attempts to salvage the idea of "aggressive sublimation," which is both a recurring notion in the work of Herbert Marcuse and one that he strangely rejects.