Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

"A book all those seriously interested in Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan were waiting for-- rejecting the usual mixture of Cultural Studies pseudo-critical variations which lack the elementary conceptual stringency, Boothby reads Freud and Lacan through Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and other key modern philosophers, restoring the Freudian metapsychology to its philosophical dignity. It is in books like this that we should look for the renaissance of the American thought! If the term 'classic' has any meaning today, 'Freud as Philosopher' is it!" -- Slavoj Zizek