Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel. Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of many books, including (with Barbara K. Gold and Charles Platter) Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGreg Forter and Paul Allen Miller Part One  Psychoanalysis and the Future of Cultural Criticism1. Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got das DingPaul Allen Miller2.Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Cultural Criticism at the New MillenniumHenry SussmanPart Two  Psychoanalysis and Collectivity3. Lacan’s Four Discourses: A Political ReadingSlavoj Žižek 4.Signs of Desire: Nationalism, War, and Rape in Titus Andronicus, Savior, and Calling the GhostsDeneen SenasiPart Three  Psychoanalysis and the Author5. Moving beyond the Politics of Blame: Let Us Now Praise Famous MenKaja Silverman6. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Psychobiography, and the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in MasculinityGreg ForterPart Four  Psychoanalysis and Sexuality7. Desiring Death: Masochism, Temporality, and the Intermittence of FormsDomietta Torlasco8. Sadistic and Masochistic Contracts in Voltaire’s La pucelle d’Orléans and Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne; or, What Does the Hymen Want?Sharon Diane Nell9. Queer(ing) Pleasure: Having a Gay Old Time in the Culture of Early-Modern FrancePierre ZobermanContributorsIndex

"This represents the most admirable synthesis of cultural studies and psychoanalysis that I have seen. It will be an inspiration to scholars with psychoanalytic interests who do not yet sense how they can apply their methods to a cultural studies framework." — Marshall W. Alcorn Jr., author of Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire

Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel. Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of many books, including (with Barbara K. Gold and Charles Platter) Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGreg Forter and Paul Allen Miller Part One  Psychoanalysis and the Future of Cultural Criticism1. Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got das DingPaul Allen Miller2.Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Cultural Criticism at the New MillenniumHenry SussmanPart Two  Psychoanalysis and Collectivity3. Lacan’s Four Discourses: A Political ReadingSlavoj Žižek 4.Signs of Desire: Nationalism, War, and Rape in Titus Andronicus, Savior, and Calling the GhostsDeneen SenasiPart Three  Psychoanalysis and the Author5. Moving beyond the Politics of Blame: Let Us Now Praise Famous MenKaja Silverman6. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Psychobiography, and the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in MasculinityGreg ForterPart Four  Psychoanalysis and Sexuality7. Desiring Death: Masochism, Temporality, and the Intermittence of FormsDomietta Torlasco8. Sadistic and Masochistic Contracts in Voltaire’s La pucelle d’Orléans and Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne; or, What Does the Hymen Want?Sharon Diane Nell9. Queer(ing) Pleasure: Having a Gay Old Time in the Culture of Early-Modern FrancePierre ZobermanContributorsIndex

"This represents the most admirable synthesis of cultural studies and psychoanalysis that I have seen. It will be an inspiration to scholars with psychoanalytic interests who do not yet sense how they can apply their methods to a cultural studies framework." — Marshall W. Alcorn Jr., author of Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire

Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel. Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of many books, including (with Barbara K. Gold and Charles Platter) Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGreg Forter and Paul Allen Miller Part One  Psychoanalysis and the Future of Cultural Criticism1. Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got das DingPaul Allen Miller2.Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Cultural Criticism at the New MillenniumHenry SussmanPart Two  Psychoanalysis and Collectivity3. Lacan’s Four Discourses: A Political ReadingSlavoj Žižek 4.Signs of Desire: Nationalism, War, and Rape in Titus Andronicus, Savior, and Calling the GhostsDeneen SenasiPart Three  Psychoanalysis and the Author5. Moving beyond the Politics of Blame: Let Us Now Praise Famous MenKaja Silverman6. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Psychobiography, and the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in MasculinityGreg ForterPart Four  Psychoanalysis and Sexuality7. Desiring Death: Masochism, Temporality, and the Intermittence of FormsDomietta Torlasco8. Sadistic and Masochistic Contracts in Voltaire’s La pucelle d’Orléans and Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne; or, What Does the Hymen Want?Sharon Diane Nell9. Queer(ing) Pleasure: Having a Gay Old Time in the Culture of Early-Modern FrancePierre ZobermanContributorsIndex

"This represents the most admirable synthesis of cultural studies and psychoanalysis that I have seen. It will be an inspiration to scholars with psychoanalytic interests who do not yet sense how they can apply their methods to a cultural studies framework." — Marshall W. Alcorn Jr., author of Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire