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Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is executive co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth Studies.

Maren Scheurer has written a fascinating study of the central role of transference in the complex interactions among psychoanalysis, literature, theater, and television. She succeeds admirably in her analysis of literary and filmic representations of psychoanalysis. She writes authoritatively, yet she is never authoritarian or dogmatic. Transference is a pioneering study of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.

• AcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction1 Psychoanalysis and the Arts2 The Therapeutic RelationshipPart II. Discourses in Dialogue: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationships3 The Art of the Therapeutic Relationship: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics4 Art as (Therapeutic) Relationship: Relational Models of Creativity, Reading, and InterpretationPart III. Reading Relationships: Therapy in Literature, Theater, and Television5 “I'm Telling Everything”: Psychoanalytic Gameply in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint6 “A Gap, a Hole, a Darkness”: Epistemic Desire in J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K7 “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace8 “Act It Out, If You Like”: Anti- and Stage-Psychiatry in Peter Shaffer's Equus9 “Locked in a Room, Listening”: Talk-Show Therapy and Co-Construction in In TreatmentPart IV. In ConclusionWorks CitedNotesIndex