Kim talks with Michelle Rada about the death drive in psychoanalysis. Michelle references Todd McGowan’sEnjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, University of Nebraska Press, 2013.She also recommendsCapitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets,by Todd McGowan. In our longer conversation, she also quoted,WhatISSex?by Alenka Zupančič, MIT Press, 2017. She also recommends a special issue ofdifferences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studieson “Constructing the Death Drive.”This issue includes an article by Luce Cantin, “The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire” which she discusses in the epidsode. Michelle thinks the whole issue is worth checking out, and especially recommends the article in there by Tracy McNulty as well, “Unbound: The Speculative Mythology of the Death Drive” and the piece by Willy Apollon, “Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture.” She also highly recommendsLife and Death in Psychoanalysisby Jean Laplanche (Johns Hopkins UP, 1976), which really informs her understanding of the economics/psychic structure of the drive,and of course….Beyond the Pleasure Principleby Sigmund Freud. And “On Narcissism: An Introduction,” Freud’s 1914 essay on primary/secondary narcissism. Michelle Rada is a PhD candidate in English at Brown University and Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College. Her research is on modernist aesthetics, form, the novel, and psychoanalysis. Michelle’s work has appeared inRoom One-Thousand, The Comparatist, The James Joyce Quarterly,The Journal of Beckett Studies,andThe Journal of Modern Literature. She is Senior Assistant Editor atdifferences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis