BOOK REVIEWS: Epileptogenic and Excitotoxic Mechanisms

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S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

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We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...

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Special Care and Treatment of Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders in New Zealand. Wellington. 1925. Is. A copy of this Report, to which we referred in our July issue, has now reached us from Wellington, through the courtesy of the Acting Director-General of Health. The Committee dealt separately with the two classes of persons named, as being not necessarily identical, and we only propose to...