How Long to Read Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)

How Long Does it Take to Read Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) by Richard Boothby

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freud’s theory – the concept of a self-destructive drive or ‘death instinct’. Originally published in 1991, Death and Desire presents in Lacanian terms a new integration of psychoanalytic theory in which the battery of key Freudian concepts – from the dynamics of the Oedipus complex to the topography of ego, id, and superego – are seen to intersect in Freud’s most far-reaching and speculative formulation of a drive toward death. Boothby argues that Lacan repositioned the theme of death in psychoanalysis in relation to Freud’s main concern – the nature and fate of desire. In doing so, Lacan rediscovered Freud’s essential insights in a manner so nuanced and penetrating that prevailing assessments of the death instinct may well have to be re-examined. Although the death instinct is usually regarded as the most obscure concept in Freud’s metapsychology, and Lacan to be the most perplexing psychoanalytic theorist, Richard Boothby’s straightforward style makes both accessible. He illustrates the coherence of Lacanian thought and shows how Lacan’s work comprises a ‘return to Freud’ along new and different angles of approach. Written with an eye to the conceptual structure of psychoanalytic theory, Death and Desire will appeal to psychoanalysts and philosophers alike.

How long is Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)?

Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) by Richard Boothby is 270 pages long, and a total of 67,500 words.

This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 8 minutes to read Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) aloud.

What Reading Level is Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)?

Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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