Elizabeth Stewart is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University. Maire Jaanus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She is the coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Bruce Fink) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. Richard Feldstein is Professor of English at Rhode Island College.

• Acknowledgements General Introduction Part I: Cultural Introduction 1. The Object of Jouissance in MusicSebastian Leikert 2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile Peter Widmer 3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt? Raymond Borens 4. Identification in the Name of Lolita Joachim Saalfrank 5. The Beauty behind the Window ShuttersAugust Ruhs Part II: Sexual Introduction 6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference Rudolph Bernet 7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's FoldJohannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli 8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman Anne Juranville 9. Symbolic Mother—Real FatherRegula Schindler Part III: Clinical Introduction 10. "But It, the World... It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression Christian Klaui 11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its ConsequencesMonique David-Menard 12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto Elisabeth Widmer 13. Demand and Wish Lucien Israel 14. Psychosis and Names Andre Michels Part IV: Philosophical Introduction 15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud Samuel Weber 16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleHans-Dieter Gondek 17. Sacrifice and the Law Bernard Baas 18. Freud and Democracy Peter Widmer 19. The Lacanian Thing Alain Juranville Contributors Index

Elizabeth Stewart is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University. Maire Jaanus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She is the coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Bruce Fink) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. Richard Feldstein is Professor of English at Rhode Island College.

• Acknowledgements General Introduction Part I: Cultural Introduction 1. The Object of Jouissance in MusicSebastian Leikert 2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile Peter Widmer 3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt? Raymond Borens 4. Identification in the Name of Lolita Joachim Saalfrank 5. The Beauty behind the Window ShuttersAugust Ruhs Part II: Sexual Introduction 6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference Rudolph Bernet 7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's FoldJohannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli 8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman Anne Juranville 9. Symbolic Mother—Real FatherRegula Schindler Part III: Clinical Introduction 10. "But It, the World... It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression Christian Klaui 11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its ConsequencesMonique David-Menard 12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto Elisabeth Widmer 13. Demand and Wish Lucien Israel 14. Psychosis and Names Andre Michels Part IV: Philosophical Introduction 15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud Samuel Weber 16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleHans-Dieter Gondek 17. Sacrifice and the Law Bernard Baas 18. Freud and Democracy Peter Widmer 19. The Lacanian Thing Alain Juranville Contributors Index

Elizabeth Stewart is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University. Maire Jaanus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She is the coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Bruce Fink) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. Richard Feldstein is Professor of English at Rhode Island College.

• Acknowledgements General Introduction Part I: Cultural Introduction 1. The Object of Jouissance in MusicSebastian Leikert 2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile Peter Widmer 3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt? Raymond Borens 4. Identification in the Name of Lolita Joachim Saalfrank 5. The Beauty behind the Window ShuttersAugust Ruhs Part II: Sexual Introduction 6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference Rudolph Bernet 7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's FoldJohannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli 8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman Anne Juranville 9. Symbolic Mother—Real FatherRegula Schindler Part III: Clinical Introduction 10. "But It, the World... It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression Christian Klaui 11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its ConsequencesMonique David-Menard 12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto Elisabeth Widmer 13. Demand and Wish Lucien Israel 14. Psychosis and Names Andre Michels Part IV: Philosophical Introduction 15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud Samuel Weber 16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleHans-Dieter Gondek 17. Sacrifice and the Law Bernard Baas 18. Freud and Democracy Peter Widmer 19. The Lacanian Thing Alain Juranville Contributors Index