Eating the Book: Dietary Rites and Paternal Function

EATING THE BOOK revolves around the Freudian notion of the primitive father, cannibalistically devoured by his children. Wittingly reminding his readers that Freud is in the know even when he makes "mistakes," Haddad shows how a thoroughly dynamic and radically new appraisal of the entire conundrum can be achieved by following a surprising and hither-to untrodden path.