Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory

Part I: Dream

1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud’s Strange Proposal

Part II: Interpretation

2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density

3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of Omnipotence

Part III: Working Through

4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization

5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological Lure