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 studies -- TV 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 -- Notes -- References.

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 Economy -- The 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 -- The uneasiness of cultural translation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching -- What does Freud want? -- What does Lacan want? -- What does Dora want? -- What does a teacher want? -- What does the student want? A syllabus? -- What do students want? Unsystematic perspectives? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 Touching and Not Touching -- References -- Index.