At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Fernanda Negrete is Assistant Professor of French and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.

"Reading Negrete's text is dazzling. This book is like a skilled quilt that bastes together performative art, visual art, literature, psychoanalysis, Charcot, Freud, Deleuze, and Lacan. Through the artwork of Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector, Negrete's study makes art intervene in psychoanalysis and vice versa. The intertwined approaches that enrich her close readings and interpretations are alluring." — Journal of Modern Literature"Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book." — Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Freud's Couch, Dreaming of ArtPart I: The Transvaluation of Health 1. Louise Bourgeois' Art of Hysteria2. Transmuting Pain into Joy with Precious Liquids3. Lygia Clark on the Space–Body ProblemPart II: Love beyond Pleasure 4. (Re)Visions of Love: Marguerite Duras5. Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al.Part III: For an Uncanny Ethics of Care 6. Water, Weather, Words: Le Temps with Roni Horn and Clarice LispectorWorks CitedIndex

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Fernanda Negrete is Assistant Professor of French and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.

"Reading Negrete's text is dazzling. This book is like a skilled quilt that bastes together performative art, visual art, literature, psychoanalysis, Charcot, Freud, Deleuze, and Lacan. Through the artwork of Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector, Negrete's study makes art intervene in psychoanalysis and vice versa. The intertwined approaches that enrich her close readings and interpretations are alluring." — Journal of Modern Literature"Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book." — Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Freud's Couch, Dreaming of ArtPart I: The Transvaluation of Health 1. Louise Bourgeois' Art of Hysteria2. Transmuting Pain into Joy with Precious Liquids3. Lygia Clark on the Space–Body ProblemPart II: Love beyond Pleasure 4. (Re)Visions of Love: Marguerite Duras5. Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al.Part III: For an Uncanny Ethics of Care 6. Water, Weather, Words: Le Temps with Roni Horn and Clarice LispectorWorks CitedIndex

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Fernanda Negrete is Assistant Professor of French and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.

"Reading Negrete's text is dazzling. This book is like a skilled quilt that bastes together performative art, visual art, literature, psychoanalysis, Charcot, Freud, Deleuze, and Lacan. Through the artwork of Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector, Negrete's study makes art intervene in psychoanalysis and vice versa. The intertwined approaches that enrich her close readings and interpretations are alluring." — Journal of Modern Literature"Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book." — Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Freud's Couch, Dreaming of ArtPart I: The Transvaluation of Health 1. Louise Bourgeois' Art of Hysteria2. Transmuting Pain into Joy with Precious Liquids3. Lygia Clark on the Space–Body ProblemPart II: Love beyond Pleasure 4. (Re)Visions of Love: Marguerite Duras5. Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al.Part III: For an Uncanny Ethics of Care 6. Water, Weather, Words: Le Temps with Roni Horn and Clarice LispectorWorks CitedIndex