The Freudian Subject

This book presents a new study of the key Freudian texts in which the author examines the relation between identification and desire, between desire and violence and between identification and object relations. It leads to a more ominous reading of Freud by showing that the two types of ties Freud postulated in the Oedipal triangle - object love and identification (the first conceivably less linked to narcissism than the second) - are in fact one.