Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College of Arizona State University. His work has been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion), The Stone (New York Times), and the Philosophical Salon (Los Angeles Review of Books).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Defense of Drive TheoryPart One: Dream1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange ProposalPart Two: Interpretation2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of OmnipotencePart Three: Working Through4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological LureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Benjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College of Arizona State University. His work has been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion), The Stone (New York Times), and the Philosophical Salon (Los Angeles Review of Books).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Defense of Drive TheoryPart One: Dream1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange ProposalPart Two: Interpretation2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of OmnipotencePart Three: Working Through4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological LureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Benjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College of Arizona State University. His work has been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion), The Stone (New York Times), and the Philosophical Salon (Los Angeles Review of Books).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Defense of Drive TheoryPart One: Dream1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange ProposalPart Two: Interpretation2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of OmnipotencePart Three: Working Through4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological LureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Benjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life.