Provides both a new theory of the "open ego," following Jacques Lacan's lead, but also James Joyce's, using a fresh new reading of Joyce's story "The Dead" from the Dubliners. Contrasts the "madness" of the writers Virginia Woolf and James Joyce based on their grasp of sexuation.

This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness.

Freud's answer to Einstein's request for Freud to find a way to pre-treat violent tendencies in people and thus prevent war. Freud says violence is a cultural level phenomenon first and foremost

Two basic drives--the ego drives and the sex drives are ever in conflict and the source of neuroses, according to Freud. In this chapter I examine the recent reports of the details of sexual assaults as laid out by victims and conclude they result from the ego drive winning out over the sex drive, defined as eros linked to another person.