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Tables of Contents for Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
10
Part I Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud
11
48
What is a psychoanalytic reading?
13
5
The uncanny and its poetics
18
13
The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Kubin's The Other Side
31
10
Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva
41
18
Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan
59
56
What is a discourse?
61
16
The indirections of desire: Hamlet
77
9
Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid
86
18
What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Veronique
104
11
Part III Patients and Analysis: Readers and Texts
115
54
What is a clinical `case'?
117
15
The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy
132
8
The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin
140
14
Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher
154
15
Conclusion
165
4
Notes
169
17
Bibliography
186
7
Index
193