The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death. Published in the series Lexington Books: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts

In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, I argue that the psychological descriptor, “borderline, ” should be extended to encompass the main facets of contemporary Western culture: splitting, affective dysregulation, intensity, and the polarization of good and bad objects. Chapter 1: Borderline in Psychoanalysis Chapter 2: The Man-Machine between Jouissance and Death: Lacan’s ‘Omission’ of the Borderline Chapter 3: Borderline Intensities from the Counterculture to Late Capitalism Chapter 4: Capitalist Production of the Perfect Borderline Subject Chapter 5: Split Worlds, Split Minds