Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud; 1 What is a psychoanalytic reading?; 2 The uncanny and its poetics; 3 The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Rubin's The Other Side; 4 Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva; Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan; 5 What is a discourse?; 6 The indirections of desire: Hamlet; 7 Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid; 8 What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Véronique; Part III Patients and Analysts:; 9 What is a clinical 'case'?
10 The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy11 The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin; 12 Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek 's The Piano Teacher; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts
