Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (2023). She teaches at University College Cork and the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Ireland.Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of several previous books and co-host (with Ryan Engley) of the Why Theory podcast.

• IntroductionSECTION I: Lacanian Reflections: Love in Literature, Film, and Media1. Between Nowhere and Goodbye: Love Clichés (and beyond) in Literature and FilmGautam Basu Thakur2. Til Death Do Us Part: Lacking in Love or Loving LackStephanie Swales3. (Courtly) Love and Death (Drive)Russell Sbriglia4. An Ethics of Shame: Love, Media Pleasures, and MonstersJennifer FriedlanderSECTION II: Through Death to Love: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, and Theological Insights5. On the Subject of LoveRichard Boothby6. Love and Death under Erasure: Lessons from the Phoenix (and Diotima)Michael Marder7. From Death to Love: The Transformative Event in Paul’s Christian DiscourseLeon S. Brenner8. Embracing Suffering Beyond the Death Drive in Catherine of Siena's WritingsMark Gerard Murphy9. Death Driven by LovePeter ProsenSECTION III: Beyond the Finite: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis in Interplay10. Existentialism After Finitude: The Transcendence of the UnconsciousTodd McGowan11. Why Is the Death Drive Not Identical with Being-Toward-Death?Simone A. Medina PoloSECTION IV: The Disintegrating Power of Love: Spielrein, Weil, and Kristeva12. Simone Weil on Death: Exploring Intersections with Freud and Spielrein's Death DriveWanyoung Kim-Murphy13. In Search for Adult Sexual Tenderness in Freud, Kristeva and BersaniStephanie Koziej14. The Spielrenian Death Drive and the Negative Affect Regulation ProcessesArvin Bains15. Spielrein's Negative Psychoanalysis: Mother Death Calling,Julie Reshe

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (2023). She teaches at University College Cork and the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Ireland.Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of several previous books and co-host (with Ryan Engley) of the Why Theory podcast.

• IntroductionSECTION I: Lacanian Reflections: Love in Literature, Film, and Media1. Between Nowhere and Goodbye: Love Clichés (and beyond) in Literature and FilmGautam Basu Thakur2. Til Death Do Us Part: Lacking in Love or Loving LackStephanie Swales3. (Courtly) Love and Death (Drive)Russell Sbriglia4. An Ethics of Shame: Love, Media Pleasures, and MonstersJennifer FriedlanderSECTION II: Through Death to Love: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, and Theological Insights5. On the Subject of LoveRichard Boothby6. Love and Death under Erasure: Lessons from the Phoenix (and Diotima)Michael Marder7. From Death to Love: The Transformative Event in Paul’s Christian DiscourseLeon S. Brenner8. Embracing Suffering Beyond the Death Drive in Catherine of Siena's WritingsMark Gerard Murphy9. Death Driven by LovePeter ProsenSECTION III: Beyond the Finite: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis in Interplay10. Existentialism After Finitude: The Transcendence of the UnconsciousTodd McGowan11. Why Is the Death Drive Not Identical with Being-Toward-Death?Simone A. Medina PoloSECTION IV: The Disintegrating Power of Love: Spielrein, Weil, and Kristeva12. Simone Weil on Death: Exploring Intersections with Freud and Spielrein's Death DriveWanyoung Kim-Murphy13. In Search for Adult Sexual Tenderness in Freud, Kristeva and BersaniStephanie Koziej14. The Spielrenian Death Drive and the Negative Affect Regulation ProcessesArvin Bains15. Spielrein's Negative Psychoanalysis: Mother Death Calling,Julie Reshe

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (2023). She teaches at University College Cork and the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Ireland.Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of several previous books and co-host (with Ryan Engley) of the Why Theory podcast.

• IntroductionSECTION I: Lacanian Reflections: Love in Literature, Film, and Media1. Between Nowhere and Goodbye: Love Clichés (and beyond) in Literature and FilmGautam Basu Thakur2. Til Death Do Us Part: Lacking in Love or Loving LackStephanie Swales3. (Courtly) Love and Death (Drive)Russell Sbriglia4. An Ethics of Shame: Love, Media Pleasures, and MonstersJennifer FriedlanderSECTION II: Through Death to Love: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, and Theological Insights5. On the Subject of LoveRichard Boothby6. Love and Death under Erasure: Lessons from the Phoenix (and Diotima)Michael Marder7. From Death to Love: The Transformative Event in Paul’s Christian DiscourseLeon S. Brenner8. Embracing Suffering Beyond the Death Drive in Catherine of Siena's WritingsMark Gerard Murphy9. Death Driven by LovePeter ProsenSECTION III: Beyond the Finite: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis in Interplay10. Existentialism After Finitude: The Transcendence of the UnconsciousTodd McGowan11. Why Is the Death Drive Not Identical with Being-Toward-Death?Simone A. Medina PoloSECTION IV: The Disintegrating Power of Love: Spielrein, Weil, and Kristeva12. Simone Weil on Death: Exploring Intersections with Freud and Spielrein's Death DriveWanyoung Kim-Murphy13. In Search for Adult Sexual Tenderness in Freud, Kristeva and BersaniStephanie Koziej14. The Spielrenian Death Drive and the Negative Affect Regulation ProcessesArvin Bains15. Spielrein's Negative Psychoanalysis: Mother Death Calling,Julie Reshe