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