Maud Ellman is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, in the Department of English, University of Chicago, USA.

• Introduction The textual unconscious The psychic theatre Freud's Oedipus Lacan's Oedipus Before the phallus Towards the psychoanalysis of literature Part 1: Drama 1. Prologue - the psycho-analytical reading of tragedy, Andre Green 2. Oedipal textuality - reading Freud's reading of Oedipus, Cynthia Chase 3. Beyond Oedipus - the specimen story of psychoanalysis, Shoshama Felman PART 2: Narrative 4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire, Slavoj Zizek 5. The melancholy persuasion, Anita Sokolsky 6. To the lighthouse, Daniel Ferrer PART 3: Poetry 7. Freud and the sublime - a catastrophe theory of creativity, Harold Bloom 8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet, Julia Kristeva 9. "Daddy", Jacqueline Rose Index

Maud Ellman is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, in the Department of English, University of Chicago, USA.

• Introduction The textual unconscious The psychic theatre Freud's Oedipus Lacan's Oedipus Before the phallus Towards the psychoanalysis of literature Part 1: Drama 1. Prologue - the psycho-analytical reading of tragedy, Andre Green 2. Oedipal textuality - reading Freud's reading of Oedipus, Cynthia Chase 3. Beyond Oedipus - the specimen story of psychoanalysis, Shoshama Felman PART 2: Narrative 4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire, Slavoj Zizek 5. The melancholy persuasion, Anita Sokolsky 6. To the lighthouse, Daniel Ferrer PART 3: Poetry 7. Freud and the sublime - a catastrophe theory of creativity, Harold Bloom 8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet, Julia Kristeva 9. "Daddy", Jacqueline Rose Index