The psychoanalytic description of the mind's connection to the body, particularly through the unconscious, has made it difficult for philosophy and psychoanalysis to combine. Freud and Lacan argued that this connection is marked by the passion of the knowing subject, and this text explores what such a characterization means and how it provides a key to many contemporary theoretical and philosophical concerns. This analysis of Freud's metapsychology and its development in Lacanian theory takes the theory of psychoanalysis as the means to understanding the psychanalytic project itself....