Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

1989: Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University1982-89: Professor of English, Cornell University1980-82: Associate Professor of English, Cornell University1972-80: Lecturer, English Faculty, Oxford University1971-80: Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University1970-71: Lecturer, University of Manchester1968-70: Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

• Introduction ; PART I: SCENES OF READING ; 1. The Room in the Book: Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading ; 2. A Whole World in Your Head: Rereading the Landscape of Absence ; PART II: READING TRAUMA ; 3. White Skin, Black Masks: Reading with Different Eyes ; 4. Border Crossings: Traumatic Reading and Holocaust Memory ; PART III: ROMANTIC WOMEN ; 5. Guilt that Wants a Name: Mary Shelley's Unreadability ; 6. Traces of an Accusing Spirit: Mary Hays and the Vehicular State

It is utopian deconstruction that Jacobus begins to unpack in these essays. In the process she opens up a rich field of possibilities, including the extension of her approach from reading to writing (often implicit in her analyses), the question of what it is in (much) Romantic writing that is uniquely consonant with such an approach, and (as my last comments suggest) the thinking of this transitional reading/writing between psychoanaysis and other theoretical discourses