Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approachesDiscusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memorySpans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, fem

A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins; References; Part I Histories; Chapter 1 The Freudian Century; Psychoanalytic culture; An occult interlude; Psychoanalysis, the humanities, and losing meaning; On implication; References; Chapter 2 The Case Study; Exemplary tales; Particulars of the case; The singular case of "Gradiva"; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Back to Frankfurt School; Prologue.

Visualization studiesTV Führer; Construction, reparation, restitution; References; Chapter 5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud; Psychoanalysis as a threshold science; Receiving psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell; Adorno and Freud: a plea for radical psychoanalysis; Adorno's reading of Kant's practical philosophy: metacritique as radical psychoanalysis; The acknowledgment of uncertainty: Cavell's Freud; The moment of psychoanalysis: Freud and philosophy; Reading against (self- )delusion: transference.

The linguistic social contract: who is talking for/to whom?The faculty of judgment and zones of indeterminacy; Post-foundationalism, philosophical romanticism, and post-normative politics; Fighting aphasia; Notes; References; Part II Literatures; Chapter 6 Freud's Textual Couch, or the Ambassador's Magic Carpet; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Freud's Double; Note; References; Chapter 8 Medieval Dreams; Notes; References; Chapter 9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the "Case" of Adolescence.

NotesReferences; Part III Visual Cultures; Chapter 11 Intimate Volver; Kristeva's semiotic/Almodóvar's signature; Volver a sentir: Papa; Volver a sentir: Mama; Indicting American capitalist "ethics"; Notes; References; Chapter 12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular; Notes; References; Chapter 13 Primetime Psychoanalysis; Notes; References; Chapter 14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change; Notes; References; Chapter 15 The Desert of the Real; The imaginary trap; Two modes of self-destruction; Notes; References; Part IV Transformations.

Chapter 16 "One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis": Defamiliarizing Psychic EconomyThe economic base; Households of the soul; Substitutive representations; Capital analogies; (D)riven economies; Notes; References; Chapter 17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond; Notes; References; Chapter 18 Psychoanalytic Animal; Notes; References; Chapter 19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream; Insomnia; Hospitality; Asylum; Notes; References; Chapter 20 Freud on Cultural Translation; Hysteria and translation; The Interpretation of Dreams: reverse translation.