First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hal Maybury's suburban existence was a dull void; an endless cycle of pubs, cigarettes and dysfunctional matrimony. But all of that changed the night a drunken wander led to the accidental discovery of an invisibility suit. With his outfit of choice allowing him to enter any building, listen to any conversation, eat, drink and ride public transport for free Hal's London becomes a humorous and illuminating misadventure. But he never expected it to take on biblical proportions.

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood-even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how...