Speaking Desires can be Dangerous – The Poetics of the Unconscious

<p>Acknowledgements vii</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud 11</p>
<p>1 What is a psychoanalytic reading? 13</p>
<p>2 The uncanny and its poetics 18</p>
<p>3 The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Kubin s The Other Side 31</p>
<p>4 Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva 41</p>
<p>Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan 59</p>
<p>5 What is a discourse? 61</p>
<p>6 The indirections of desire: Hamlet 77</p>
<p>7 Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover s Spanking the Maid 86</p>
<p>8 What does Woman want?: The Double Life of V&eacute;ronique 104</p>
<p>Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and Texts 115</p>
<p>9 What is a clinical case ? 117</p>
<p>10 The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy 132</p>
<p>11 The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin 140</p>
<p>12 Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek s The Piano Teacher 154</p>
<p>Conclusion 165</p>
<p>Notes 169</p>
<p>Bibliography 186</p>
<p>Index 193</p>