This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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