Richard Boothby

Richard Boothby
Academic background
Alma materBoston University (PhD)
ThesisLanguage, Desire, and Death in Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan's Return of Freud (1987)
Doctoral advisorWilliam J. Richardson, Erazim Kohák
Academic work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionGerman Idealism
InstitutionsLoyola University Maryland
Websitehttps://www.loyola.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/boothby-richard.html

Richard Perkins Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland.[1]

Life and works

Boothby received his A.B. from Yale University in 1977 and his Ed.M. in 1979 from Harvard University. In 1987 he defended his PhD dissertation on "Language, Desire, and Death in Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan's Return of Freud " in Boston University.

Selected publications

  • Boothby, Richard (1995). Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan): Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315851570. ISBN 978-1-317-91610-9.[2][3][4]
  • Boothby, Richard (2001). Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315870403. ISBN 978-1-317-97259-4.[5][6][7][8]
  • Boothby, Richard (2006). Sex on the Couch: What Freud still has to teach us about sex and gender. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315880907. ISBN 978-1-134-72963-0.[9]
  • Boothby, Richard (2022). Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son's Suicide. Other Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-63542-260-3.[10]
  • Boothby, Richard (2023). Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred. Northwestern University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv34h0990. ISBN 978-0-8101-4539-9. JSTOR j.ctv34h0990.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Richard P. Boothby". www.loyola.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  2. ^ Gullickson, Terri; Ramser, Pamela (1993). "Review of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud". Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews. 38 (12): 1334. doi:10.1037/032897. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  3. ^ Ecke, Wilfried Ver; Huyke, Héctor José; Wurzer, Wilhelm S. (1995-07-01). "Book reviews". Man and World. 28 (3): 303–315. doi:10.1007/BF01277074. ISSN 1573-1103.
  4. ^ Hughes, Jonathan; Nutt, Kathleen; Archard, David; Smith, Nick; Mann, John; Bowie, Andrew; Klaushofer, Alex; Kitchen, Gary; Deligiorgi, Katerina; Craib, Ian; Dobson, Andrew; Glandien, Kersten; Rampley, Matthew; Segal, Lynne; Macey, David (1993). "63 Reviews". Radical Philosophy (63). ISSN 0300-211X.
  5. ^ Jurist, Elliot L. (2002). "Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  6. ^ Chessick, Richard D. (2003-03-01). "Book Review: Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan, by Richard Boothby, Routledge, 2001, 330 pp". The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 63 (1): 95–97. doi:10.1023/A:1022314823366. ISSN 1573-6741.
  7. ^ "Richard Boothby, Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan - European Journal of Psychoanalysis". European Journal of Psychoanalysis -. 2001-02-16. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  8. ^ Johnston, Adrian. "Freud As Philosopher – Metapsychology Online Reviews". Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  9. ^ Jevremovic, Petar. "Sex on the Couch – Metapsychology Online Reviews". Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  10. ^ "Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son's Suicide by Richard Boothby". www.publishersweekly.com. 2022. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  11. ^ Todd Dean, J. (2023-10-01). "The Need for Nothing: Lacanian Theory and the Sacred". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 71 (5): 1013–1024. doi:10.1177/00030651231208384. ISSN 0003-0651.