Download or read book The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory written by Jean-Gerard Bursztein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author presents his reading of psychoanalysis in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud, and explores the transformations of Freud's work by his followers. The author notes that some of these followers trimmed it down even to exclude the death drive, which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-1950s embarked on a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show the importance of Freud's findings for the understanding of subjectivity.