Jacqueline Rose Reader

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London, and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Her most recent publications include The Last Resistance, The Question of Zion, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, and On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World.

“Jacqueline Rose is one of our most trenchant, politically engaged intellectuals. It will be important for a wide range of readers to have this collection of her essays, along with the introduction-which will help readers unfamiliar with the full range of her work-and the splendid interview that concludes the volume.”-Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley “Jacqueline Rose, friend and ally, achieves what many of us attempt: to preserve the delicacy of a training in literary reading in the tough realities of the political. She made psychoanalysis possible for a whole generation. This book gives a sense of the range: analysis, text, war-from South Africa to Palestine.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University “Google's motto is ‘Don't Be Evil,’ but is there something near to evil in writing itself? So suggests a superb essay here, ‘The Body of Evil,’ which brings together Hannah Arendt, JM Coetzee, and the aftermath of 9/11. ‘People using the term “evil” all sound the same,’ comments Rose, in a piece that shows off her discursively probing style to best effect... The rest of the collection sees a psychoanalytic reading of Peter Pan, an intriguing defence of Sylvia Plath's notorious poem ‘Daddy,’ and interesting interventions on Eliot-on-Hamlet, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Melanie Klein, and Israel-Palestine (with Amos Oz a key reference). The editors do a fine job of introducing the work.” - Steven Poole (The Guardian) “Rose brings courage, insight and compassion to every topic in this book, and gives the readers a taste of her uniquely feminine way of looking at the world: at injustice, identity, nationality, language, literature, and more through a psychoanalytic lens. A writer, literary critic, lecturer, and teacher, Rose’s oeuvre is impressively diverse.” - Michal Adiv-Ginach (American Journal of Psychoanalysis) “The Jacqueline Rose Reader offers an insightful and informative overview of the output (so far) of a provocative and influential writer. It will be an important resource for teachers and students of psychoanalytic theory, of literary studies, and of cultural studies, and, hopefully, will introduce new readers to Rose’s wide-ranging and valuable work.” - Hannah Priest (Feminism and Psychology)

• Reading Jacqueline Rose: An Introduction / Ben Naparstek and Justin Clemens 1Part I. Analysis Introduction to Part I 271. Femininity and Its Discontents 312. Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne 483. Negativity in the Work of Melanie Kline 614. Mass Psychology 86Part II. Nation Introduction to Part II 1175. States of Fantasy 1236. Just, Lasting, Comprehensive 1387. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World 1568. The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee, and 9/11 1709. "Imponderables in Thin Air": Zionism as Psychoanalysis (Critique) 188Part III. Representations Introduction to Part III 21510. Sexuality in the Field of Vision 22111. Hamlet: The "Mona Lisa" of Literature 22812. Virginia Woolf and the Death of Modernism 24213. "Daddy" 25714. Peter Pan and Freud: Who Is Talking and to Whom? 27415. Excerpts from Albertine: A Novel 300Part IV. Interventions Introduction to Part IV 31516. "Infinite Justice" 31917. We Are All Afraid, But of What, Exactly? 32018. Why Zionism Today Is the Real Enemy of the Jews 32219. Reflections on Israel's 2008 Incursion into Gaza 32620. Why Howard Jacobson Is Wrong 32821. Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame 33222. A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose 341Notes 361Jacqueline Rose: A Select Bibliography, 1974–2010 413Index 419