Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"That the knot which ties literature and film to psychoanalysis is intimate and durable is the beautifully validated premise of this collection. Over the last century periodic attempts to sever this tie have been met with renewed, and often more vigorous, forms of attachment. In the face of today's post-critical calls for a definitive severance, the various essays assembled here demonstrate, in ways wily, rigorous, and robust, why this knot cannot be unloosed."-- Joan Copjec, Brown University

• Editor’s Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté: "Ampersands"I. PSYCHOANALYSIS, TEXT, AND THE EMPLOTMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY Isabelle Alfandary: "The Temptation of the Plot in Freud’s Early Case Studies." Anna Kornbluh: "Freeing Impersonality: the objective subject in psychoanalysis and Sense & Sensibility." David Sigler: "Lacan’s Romanticism." Astrid Lac: "Trauma theory, or Literature’s Will to Power." Fuhito Endo: "Queering the death drive in Joseph Conrad." Annelein Masschelein: "Why Didier Anzieu Now? Stretching the Shared Skin of the Work of Art." Ruth Gounelas: "What Does the Poem Do? Literature and Psychoanalysis after Badiou."II. READING NARRATIVES WITH REVISED CONCEPTS Kazuyuki Hara: "Deconstructing the Oedipus Complex: Ôe and Murakami on the way to global culture." Trent Ludwig: "Phantom Thread: Threading Between Dresses and Debts." Sigi Jöttkandt: "Signs and Symbols, or the Nabokovian Unconscious." Laurent Milesi: « Cybergo Sum: Auto-fiction vs. Psychoanalysis.» Elizabeth Stewart: "Literature and the social bond." Arka Chattopadhyay: "How to Mourn the Present: Fiction, Memory and Mourning." Manya Steinkoler: "Teaching Degree Zero: Impossible Texts Inventing Subjectivities in the Classroom."

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"That the knot which ties literature and film to psychoanalysis is intimate and durable is the beautifully validated premise of this collection. Over the last century periodic attempts to sever this tie have been met with renewed, and often more vigorous, forms of attachment. In the face of today's post-critical calls for a definitive severance, the various essays assembled here demonstrate, in ways wily, rigorous, and robust, why this knot cannot be unloosed."-- Joan Copjec, Brown University

• Editor’s Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté: "Ampersands"I. PSYCHOANALYSIS, TEXT, AND THE EMPLOTMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY Isabelle Alfandary: "The Temptation of the Plot in Freud’s Early Case Studies." Anna Kornbluh: "Freeing Impersonality: the objective subject in psychoanalysis and Sense & Sensibility." David Sigler: "Lacan’s Romanticism." Astrid Lac: "Trauma theory, or Literature’s Will to Power." Fuhito Endo: "Queering the death drive in Joseph Conrad." Annelein Masschelein: "Why Didier Anzieu Now? Stretching the Shared Skin of the Work of Art." Ruth Gounelas: "What Does the Poem Do? Literature and Psychoanalysis after Badiou."II. READING NARRATIVES WITH REVISED CONCEPTS Kazuyuki Hara: "Deconstructing the Oedipus Complex: Ôe and Murakami on the way to global culture." Trent Ludwig: "Phantom Thread: Threading Between Dresses and Debts." Sigi Jöttkandt: "Signs and Symbols, or the Nabokovian Unconscious." Laurent Milesi: « Cybergo Sum: Auto-fiction vs. Psychoanalysis.» Elizabeth Stewart: "Literature and the social bond." Arka Chattopadhyay: "How to Mourn the Present: Fiction, Memory and Mourning." Manya Steinkoler: "Teaching Degree Zero: Impossible Texts Inventing Subjectivities in the Classroom."

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"That the knot which ties literature and film to psychoanalysis is intimate and durable is the beautifully validated premise of this collection. Over the last century periodic attempts to sever this tie have been met with renewed, and often more vigorous, forms of attachment. In the face of today's post-critical calls for a definitive severance, the various essays assembled here demonstrate, in ways wily, rigorous, and robust, why this knot cannot be unloosed."-- Joan Copjec, Brown University

• Editor’s Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté: "Ampersands"I. PSYCHOANALYSIS, TEXT, AND THE EMPLOTMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY Isabelle Alfandary: "The Temptation of the Plot in Freud’s Early Case Studies." Anna Kornbluh: "Freeing Impersonality: the objective subject in psychoanalysis and Sense & Sensibility." David Sigler: "Lacan’s Romanticism." Astrid Lac: "Trauma theory, or Literature’s Will to Power." Fuhito Endo: "Queering the death drive in Joseph Conrad." Annelein Masschelein: "Why Didier Anzieu Now? Stretching the Shared Skin of the Work of Art." Ruth Gounelas: "What Does the Poem Do? Literature and Psychoanalysis after Badiou."II. READING NARRATIVES WITH REVISED CONCEPTS Kazuyuki Hara: "Deconstructing the Oedipus Complex: Ôe and Murakami on the way to global culture." Trent Ludwig: "Phantom Thread: Threading Between Dresses and Debts." Sigi Jöttkandt: "Signs and Symbols, or the Nabokovian Unconscious." Laurent Milesi: « Cybergo Sum: Auto-fiction vs. Psychoanalysis.» Elizabeth Stewart: "Literature and the social bond." Arka Chattopadhyay: "How to Mourn the Present: Fiction, Memory and Mourning." Manya Steinkoler: "Teaching Degree Zero: Impossible Texts Inventing Subjectivities in the Classroom."