"This is a very well-conceived and well-executed book that stages a fascinating confrontation between Heidegger and Freud. Its greatest merit, in my view, is to show how Freud's insights into death can be brought to bear on Heidegger's existential analytic in a manner that significantly complicates the relation between authenticity and inauthenticity and culminates in a relation notion of finitude. It is a very impressive piece of work." - Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research "Havi Carel's Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger offers an impressively lucid study of the relationship between life and death, showing how the Freudian metaphysics of the death drive can be usefully supplemented by Heidegger's phenomenological analysis of Dasein. Carel doesn't just present persuasive critiques of Freudian and Heideggerian approaches to death and finitude; she also develops an original account, combining Freudian and Heideggerian insights, of what an ethics of finitude might look like. Her study thus succeeds admirably in bringing Freudian psychoanalysis and Heideggerian phenomenology into a welcome critical dialogue." - Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Sydney.