Dr Simon Boag is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. He has published extensively on the topics of psychoanalytic and psychological theory, personality and unconscious processes, and is the author of Freudian repression, the unconscious, and the dynamics of inhibition. He has also co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of psychoanalysis (Philosophy, Science & Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis & Philosophy of Mind).

"Simon Boag presents an even handed and thoroughgoing assessment of psychoanalytic metapsychology, making a strong case for re-vitalizing its fundamental importance to psychoanalysis. This work is a "must read" for all those who study and value the foundational nature of psychoanalytic theory."-Linda A. W. Brakel, Associate Professor (adjunct) of psychiatry and research associate in philosophy at the University of Michigan. Author of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind; Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis; and The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind.

• Introduction 1. The Metaphysics of Metapsychology 2. The biological foundations of personality: drives and affects 3. Repression and the metapsychology of defence 4. The metapsychology of the unconscious 5. The metapsychology of the self 6. The metapsychology of object relations Conclusion

Dr Simon Boag is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. He has published extensively on the topics of psychoanalytic and psychological theory, personality and unconscious processes, and is the author of Freudian repression, the unconscious, and the dynamics of inhibition. He has also co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of psychoanalysis (Philosophy, Science & Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis & Philosophy of Mind).

"Simon Boag presents an even handed and thoroughgoing assessment of psychoanalytic metapsychology, making a strong case for re-vitalizing its fundamental importance to psychoanalysis. This work is a "must read" for all those who study and value the foundational nature of psychoanalytic theory."-Linda A. W. Brakel, Associate Professor (adjunct) of psychiatry and research associate in philosophy at the University of Michigan. Author of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind; Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis; and The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind.

• Introduction 1. The Metaphysics of Metapsychology 2. The biological foundations of personality: drives and affects 3. Repression and the metapsychology of defence 4. The metapsychology of the unconscious 5. The metapsychology of the self 6. The metapsychology of object relations Conclusion

Dr Simon Boag is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. He has published extensively on the topics of psychoanalytic and psychological theory, personality and unconscious processes, and is the author of Freudian repression, the unconscious, and the dynamics of inhibition. He has also co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of psychoanalysis (Philosophy, Science & Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis & Philosophy of Mind).

"Simon Boag presents an even handed and thoroughgoing assessment of psychoanalytic metapsychology, making a strong case for re-vitalizing its fundamental importance to psychoanalysis. This work is a "must read" for all those who study and value the foundational nature of psychoanalytic theory."-Linda A. W. Brakel, Associate Professor (adjunct) of psychiatry and research associate in philosophy at the University of Michigan. Author of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind; Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis; and The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind.

• Introduction 1. The Metaphysics of Metapsychology 2. The biological foundations of personality: drives and affects 3. Repression and the metapsychology of defence 4. The metapsychology of the unconscious 5. The metapsychology of the self 6. The metapsychology of object relations Conclusion