Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors

by Livia Llewellyn and Laird Barron

Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards.... The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn. In his introduction to this volume, Laird...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590213246
• ISBN13: 9781590213247
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Lethe Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"