Andrew Barnaby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the coauthor (with Lisa J. Schnell) of Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing.

"Barnaby has written an imaginative, illuminating, original, and very scholarly book." — CHOICE

• Note on Citations for Major Primary WorksAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Refusal of Being Born: Psychoanalysis, Belatedness, and Existential Trauma Introduction to Part I. Why Are We Born? Inversion in Freud’s "Theme of the Three Caskets"1. "Awakening is itself the site of a trauma": Rethinking Caruth on Freud2. Owing Life: The Birth Trauma and its Discontents (Rank and Freud) Part II. Tardy Sons: Shakespeare, Freud, and Filial Ambivalence 3. "More than his father’s death": Mourning at Elsinore and Vienna4. The Afterwards of the UncannyPart III. "Is not He your Father who created you?": Belatedness and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Introduction to Part III. Gazing on God5. Satan’s Gnostic Fantasy6. Choosing the Father in Moses and Monotheism EpilogueNotesWorks CitedPermissionsIndex

Andrew Barnaby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the coauthor (with Lisa J. Schnell) of Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing.

"Barnaby has written an imaginative, illuminating, original, and very scholarly book." — CHOICE

• Note on Citations for Major Primary WorksAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Refusal of Being Born: Psychoanalysis, Belatedness, and Existential Trauma Introduction to Part I. Why Are We Born? Inversion in Freud’s "Theme of the Three Caskets"1. "Awakening is itself the site of a trauma": Rethinking Caruth on Freud2. Owing Life: The Birth Trauma and its Discontents (Rank and Freud) Part II. Tardy Sons: Shakespeare, Freud, and Filial Ambivalence 3. "More than his father’s death": Mourning at Elsinore and Vienna4. The Afterwards of the UncannyPart III. "Is not He your Father who created you?": Belatedness and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Introduction to Part III. Gazing on God5. Satan’s Gnostic Fantasy6. Choosing the Father in Moses and Monotheism EpilogueNotesWorks CitedPermissionsIndex

Andrew Barnaby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the coauthor (with Lisa J. Schnell) of Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing.

"Barnaby has written an imaginative, illuminating, original, and very scholarly book." — CHOICE

• Note on Citations for Major Primary WorksAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Refusal of Being Born: Psychoanalysis, Belatedness, and Existential Trauma Introduction to Part I. Why Are We Born? Inversion in Freud’s "Theme of the Three Caskets"1. "Awakening is itself the site of a trauma": Rethinking Caruth on Freud2. Owing Life: The Birth Trauma and its Discontents (Rank and Freud) Part II. Tardy Sons: Shakespeare, Freud, and Filial Ambivalence 3. "More than his father’s death": Mourning at Elsinore and Vienna4. The Afterwards of the UncannyPart III. "Is not He your Father who created you?": Belatedness and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Introduction to Part III. Gazing on God5. Satan’s Gnostic Fantasy6. Choosing the Father in Moses and Monotheism EpilogueNotesWorks CitedPermissionsIndex