Using Lacan's work as a key, this volume reassesses the philosophical significance of Freud's most ambitious general theory of mental functioning: metapsycholog... » 

Using Lacan's work as a key, this volume reassesses the philosophical significance of Freud's most ambitious general theory of mental functioning: metapsychology. The author argues that this theory has been misunderstood, and that Freud's impact on philosophy has been unjustly muted. «