UNSPEAKABLE SECRETS AND THE PSYCHOANALYS I S OF CULTURE -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Vexed Encounters:Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies,and the Politics of Close Reading -- 1. Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in "Babette's Feast" -- 2. Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaborationin Last Tango in Paris -- 3. Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the "Dirty War" and the Holocaust -- 4. Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity -- 5. Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jewin Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axël -- 6. Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray -- CONCLUSION: The Ghost of Cultural Studies -- NOTES -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Ž.