Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the Unconscious

Introduction.
<p>Part I: Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud.</p>
<p>1. What is a psychoanalytic reading?.</p>
<p>2. The uncanny and its poetics.</p>
<p>3. The vagaries of fantasy: Kubin?s The Other Side. .</p>
<p>4. Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva.</p>
<p>Part II: Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan.</p>
<p>5. What is discourse?.</p>
<p>6. The indirections of desire: Hamlet. .</p>
<p>7. Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover?s Spanking the Maid. .</p>
<p>8. What does Woman want?: The Double Life of V&eacute;ronique.</p>
<p>Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and texts.</p>
<p>9. What is a clinical ?case??.</p>
<p>10. The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy. .</p>
<p>11. The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin.</p>
<p>12. Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek?s The Piano Teacher.</p>
<p>Conclusion.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>