James Penney is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the author of The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire, also published by SUNY Press.

"[Penney] successfully challenges a formidable array of contemporary prejudices that are virtual pieties in the liberal humanities … By articulating his theory in accessible terms and applying it to cases in philosophy, postcolonial theory, cinema, and painting, Penney makes one of the strongest cases I've seen for the significance of psychoanalysis in work that aspires to ethical and political value. Students of cultural studies, especially those interested in the political and ethical implications of their work, would be well advised to take note." — Molly Anne Rothenberg, New Formations"A welcome contribution to the literature, this fine study of the psychoanalytic concept of transference explores how art and politics, as acts, can be understood for what they reveal about the workings of the unconscious mind … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This is an original contribution to Lacanian scholarship. The scope of the book is impressive, dealing with postcolonial theory, film theory, art/painting, and critical theory. It introduces to Anglo-American readership, Lacan's texts that have not been translated into English." — Mikko Tuhkanen, coeditor of Queer Times, Queer Becomings

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Refusal of LoveLove in the SocialThe Technique of LoveResisting the TransferenceWoman and the Riff-RaffThe Fall of the OtherFrom Partial Love to Anxiety2. Socrates, AnalystAn Original TransferenceOf Love Spheres and Stranded VesselsA Pregnant BeautyThe Part of LoveLove, Ménage à Trois3. Like a Pack of RatsWill the Real Frantz Fanon Please Stand Up?A Gift of QuinineThe Metropolitan ViewThe Pack of Rats4. Loving the TerroristMassacre and SubjectivationA Century of ViolenceA Begging Bowl Made of FleshOf Grey Hair and Treachery5. For the Love of CinemaImaginary Signifiers?Species of IdentificationBeyond the Phenomenon of CinemaProustian Obsession and the Failure of Spectatorship6. Naked LoveBodies of TheoryPainting in NatureNude and NakedTableau and ScreenShameful NudesThe Object of ArtNotesIndex

James Penney is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the author of The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire, also published by SUNY Press.

"[Penney] successfully challenges a formidable array of contemporary prejudices that are virtual pieties in the liberal humanities … By articulating his theory in accessible terms and applying it to cases in philosophy, postcolonial theory, cinema, and painting, Penney makes one of the strongest cases I've seen for the significance of psychoanalysis in work that aspires to ethical and political value. Students of cultural studies, especially those interested in the political and ethical implications of their work, would be well advised to take note." — Molly Anne Rothenberg, New Formations"A welcome contribution to the literature, this fine study of the psychoanalytic concept of transference explores how art and politics, as acts, can be understood for what they reveal about the workings of the unconscious mind … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This is an original contribution to Lacanian scholarship. The scope of the book is impressive, dealing with postcolonial theory, film theory, art/painting, and critical theory. It introduces to Anglo-American readership, Lacan's texts that have not been translated into English." — Mikko Tuhkanen, coeditor of Queer Times, Queer Becomings

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Refusal of LoveLove in the SocialThe Technique of LoveResisting the TransferenceWoman and the Riff-RaffThe Fall of the OtherFrom Partial Love to Anxiety2. Socrates, AnalystAn Original TransferenceOf Love Spheres and Stranded VesselsA Pregnant BeautyThe Part of LoveLove, Ménage à Trois3. Like a Pack of RatsWill the Real Frantz Fanon Please Stand Up?A Gift of QuinineThe Metropolitan ViewThe Pack of Rats4. Loving the TerroristMassacre and SubjectivationA Century of ViolenceA Begging Bowl Made of FleshOf Grey Hair and Treachery5. For the Love of CinemaImaginary Signifiers?Species of IdentificationBeyond the Phenomenon of CinemaProustian Obsession and the Failure of Spectatorship6. Naked LoveBodies of TheoryPainting in NatureNude and NakedTableau and ScreenShameful NudesThe Object of ArtNotesIndex

James Penney is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the author of The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire, also published by SUNY Press.

"[Penney] successfully challenges a formidable array of contemporary prejudices that are virtual pieties in the liberal humanities … By articulating his theory in accessible terms and applying it to cases in philosophy, postcolonial theory, cinema, and painting, Penney makes one of the strongest cases I've seen for the significance of psychoanalysis in work that aspires to ethical and political value. Students of cultural studies, especially those interested in the political and ethical implications of their work, would be well advised to take note." — Molly Anne Rothenberg, New Formations"A welcome contribution to the literature, this fine study of the psychoanalytic concept of transference explores how art and politics, as acts, can be understood for what they reveal about the workings of the unconscious mind … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This is an original contribution to Lacanian scholarship. The scope of the book is impressive, dealing with postcolonial theory, film theory, art/painting, and critical theory. It introduces to Anglo-American readership, Lacan's texts that have not been translated into English." — Mikko Tuhkanen, coeditor of Queer Times, Queer Becomings

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Refusal of LoveLove in the SocialThe Technique of LoveResisting the TransferenceWoman and the Riff-RaffThe Fall of the OtherFrom Partial Love to Anxiety2. Socrates, AnalystAn Original TransferenceOf Love Spheres and Stranded VesselsA Pregnant BeautyThe Part of LoveLove, Ménage à Trois3. Like a Pack of RatsWill the Real Frantz Fanon Please Stand Up?A Gift of QuinineThe Metropolitan ViewThe Pack of Rats4. Loving the TerroristMassacre and SubjectivationA Century of ViolenceA Begging Bowl Made of FleshOf Grey Hair and Treachery5. For the Love of CinemaImaginary Signifiers?Species of IdentificationBeyond the Phenomenon of CinemaProustian Obsession and the Failure of Spectatorship6. Naked LoveBodies of TheoryPainting in NatureNude and NakedTableau and ScreenShameful NudesThe Object of ArtNotesIndex