Shoshana Feldman is professor of French at Yale University and an editor of Yale French Studies. She is the author of La "Folie" dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Stendhal, and La "Folie" at la chose Litteraire.

It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature. Year's Work in English Studies Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences. Modern Psychoanalysis

• Foreword to Johns Hopkins EditionForeword to Yale French Studies EditionTo Open the QuestionChapter 1. The Practice of Reading: Psychoanalysis with LiteratureChapter 2. The Practice of Reading: Literature with PsychoanalysisChapter 3. The Practice of Writing and PsychoanalysisChapter 4. The Statue of Theoretical Discourse: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, LIteratureContributors