Badia Sahar Ahad is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University.

"An innovative and meaningful addition to recent scholarship on race and psychoanalysis. Badia Sahar Ahad's work makes a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the study of race, psychoanalysis, African American literature, and American culture."--Gwen S. Bergner, author of Taboo Subjects: Sex and Psychoanalysis"Freud Upside Down showcases a theoretical sophistication that opens up exciting archives to a new take on literary and intellectual history." --Michael L. Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknoledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics and Production of Interiority in the Messenger Magazine (1922-23)2. The Anxiety of Birth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand3. Art's Imperfect End: Race and Gurdjieff in Jean Toomer's "Transatlantic"4. "A genuine cooperation": Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's Psychoanalytic Conversations5. Maternal Anxieties and Political Desires in Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic Circle6. Racial Sincerity and the Biracial Body in Danzy Senna's CaucasiaPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

Badia Sahar Ahad is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University.

"An innovative and meaningful addition to recent scholarship on race and psychoanalysis. Badia Sahar Ahad's work makes a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the study of race, psychoanalysis, African American literature, and American culture."--Gwen S. Bergner, author of Taboo Subjects: Sex and Psychoanalysis"Freud Upside Down showcases a theoretical sophistication that opens up exciting archives to a new take on literary and intellectual history." --Michael L. Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknoledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics and Production of Interiority in the Messenger Magazine (1922-23)2. The Anxiety of Birth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand3. Art's Imperfect End: Race and Gurdjieff in Jean Toomer's "Transatlantic"4. "A genuine cooperation": Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's Psychoanalytic Conversations5. Maternal Anxieties and Political Desires in Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic Circle6. Racial Sincerity and the Biracial Body in Danzy Senna's CaucasiaPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

Badia Sahar Ahad is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University.

"An innovative and meaningful addition to recent scholarship on race and psychoanalysis. Badia Sahar Ahad's work makes a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the study of race, psychoanalysis, African American literature, and American culture."--Gwen S. Bergner, author of Taboo Subjects: Sex and Psychoanalysis"Freud Upside Down showcases a theoretical sophistication that opens up exciting archives to a new take on literary and intellectual history." --Michael L. Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknoledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics and Production of Interiority in the Messenger Magazine (1922-23)2. The Anxiety of Birth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand3. Art's Imperfect End: Race and Gurdjieff in Jean Toomer's "Transatlantic"4. "A genuine cooperation": Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's Psychoanalytic Conversations5. Maternal Anxieties and Political Desires in Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic Circle6. Racial Sincerity and the Biracial Body in Danzy Senna's CaucasiaPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex