Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Cultural theory and psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis and cultural theory -- Negotiating the real -- The papers -- Notes -- References -- 1 Beyond Marxism and psychoanalysis -- The question of the subject -- The paradoxes of cultural criticism -- Subject boundaries -- The end of analysis -- Beyond psychoanalysis -- Notes -- References -- 2 Gay men and female identification: pathology or cultural dissent? -- Cultural studies and psychoanalysis -- Tennessee Williams and gay subculture -- Hegemony and homosocial masculinity -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 3 Politics and psychotherapy -- Politicizing therapy thinking and practice -- A new deal for women and men? -- The problem of men -- In praise of gender confusion -- The internal family and a new deal -- The secret politics of the parents in bed -- Earthing the mother-son relationship -- The father's body -- Sibling justice -- The politics of transformation -- Appendix: recent developments in this field -- References: -- 4 For Esmé with love and squalor -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 Psycho-politics: Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 In memory of absent fathers: black paternity and social spectatorship -- The screen as mirror -- Death of the brother, rebirth of the son -- The father as failed mirror -- Return to the dead mother -- Notes -- References -- 7 Out of the past: psychoanalysis, trauma and the limits to recollection -- Child abuse and Masson's Freud -- Recollection vs construction -- Trauma and the return of memory -- Conclusion: Laplanche and the temporality of trauma -- References -- 8 The poetics of opacity: readability and literary form -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References.

9 Identification's edge: dreams, bodies and the butcher's wife -- Bodies and identifications -- The butcher's wife: distinguishing bodies -- Instances of magical defiance -- Notes -- References -- 10 Writing the adolescent body -- Meanwhile, out in the street (and inside the text), history returns… -- Notes -- References: -- 11 Backward glances -- References -- 12 Creative writing and problems of identity: a Horneyan perspective -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Index.