This book is based on excellent doctoral research by a lecturer in the Department of Hermeneutics and Cultural studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. It is a comprehensive, exhaustive exposition of the role of the concept of death in psychoanalytic theory. This, together with the subject matter itself, can make it heavy-going and, at times, it reads like a Ph.D. thesis (I first read it on a flight which gave it immediacy!). However, I would recommend the reader to persevere with the book as it raises interesting, important and new insights into the place of death in psychoanalysis. The author's main