Landmarks in Psychoanalysis is a collection of papers by the famous Finnish psychoanalyst Eero Rechardt. Together with his fellow researcher, also a famous Finnish psychoanalyst, Pentti Ikonen, he studied Thanatos - deathdrive -theory for many years. This enormous work led to further investigations and a new approach to phenomena like binding, the psychology of destruction and shame. As a musician himself Eero Rechardt also wrote interesting papers on music. They are included at the end of this book. Landmarks in Psychoanalysis provides a fascinating and interesting journey through the field of psychoanalytic science, without forgetting the basic theory of the great founder Sigmund Freud.