Richard Boothby

Richard Boothby
Academic background
Alma mater	Boston University (PhD)
Thesis	Language, Desire, and Death in Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan's Return of Freud (1987)
Doctoral advisor	William J. Richardson, Erazim Kohák
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	German Idealism
Institutions	Loyola University Maryland
Website	https://www.loyola.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/boothby-richard.html

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

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.
• Boothby, Richard (2001). Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315870403. ISBN 978-1-317-97259-4.
• 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.
• Boothby, Richard (2022). Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son's Suicide. Other Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-63542-260-3.
• 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.