Requiem for the ego : Freud and the origins of postmodernism / Alfred I. Tauber.

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

xix, 308 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The psychoanalytic ego -- Prospects of enlightenment -- Adorno : reconceiving the ego -- Heidegger's confrontation -- Lacan's return to Freud -- The désirants : whither the ego? -- Wittgenstein and the quandary of private language -- Conclusion : reason and its discontents.