Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She was previously Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature and culture, with particular focus on modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture, life writing, literature and film, the history of psychoanalysis, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of several books, including The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and the forthcoming books Dreams of Modernity: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Cinema (2014) and Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction (2014).Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford. She was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of English. Her research interests include nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century British, Anglophone, and world literatures, with particular focus on critical and cultural theory, intellectual history, the novel, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis. She is the author of What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2013) and Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007).

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• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1Laura MarcusPart I Histories 131 The Freudian Century 15Stephen Frosh2 The Case Study 34Andrew Webber3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49Carolyn Burdett4 Back to Frankfurt School 66Laurence A. Rickels5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 82Daniel SteuerPart II Literatures 1036 Freud’s Textual Couch, or the Ambassador’s Magic Carpet 105Jean-Michel Rabaté7 Freud’s Double 122Nicholas Royle8 Medieval Dreams 137Nicolette Zeeman9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 151Tim Dean10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the “Case” of Adolescence 167Pamela ThurschwellPart III Visual Cultures 19111 Intimate Volver 193Frances L. Restuccia12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216Catherine Liu13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233Ankhi Mukherjee14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 250Patricia Gherovici15 The Desert of the Real 271Todd McGowanPart IV Transformations 28716 “One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis”: Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289Anna Kornbluh17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312Martin Hägglund18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328Maud Ellmann19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351Ranjana Khanna20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367Robert J.C. Young21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385Isobel Armstrong22 Touching and Not Touching 410Naomi SegalIndex 425