Introduction: Misunderstanding Lacan
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland, and Sinan Richards, University College Cork, Ireland
Part I. Conceptualizing Lacan
1. Lacan: Avant-garde psychiatrist
Derek Hook, Duquesne University, USA, and Stijn Vanheule, Ghent University, Belgium
2. Lacan's "New Relay": Salvador Dalí and René Crevel
Sinan Richards, University College Cork, Ireland
3. Modernity and the Impotence of Discourse
Nadia Bou Ali, American University in Beirut, Lebanon
4. Subjective Destitution as Gift
Elizabeth Stewart, Yeshiva University, USA
5. Psychoanalysis in Search of Itself: Jacques Lacan, T.S. Eliot, and the Seductions of Modernism
Mario Beira, Independent Scholar, and Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK
6. From Irma to Joyce to Beckett: On Lacan's Crisis of Representation
Will Greenshields, Zhejiang University, China
7. Lituraterre: How Lacan Literalizes Literature
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Part II. Lacan and Aesthetics
8. Navel-Gazing: Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Confessional Desire
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
9. Thinking Again about the End: Kafka, Lacan, and Benjamin
Ben Ware, King's College London, UK
10. Bachmann's Malaise and the Language of Hysteria
Jamieson Webster, The New School for Social Research, USA, and Marcus Coelen, ICI Berlin, Germany
11. Ret-Con Jouissance: Salman Rushdie and Postcolonial Modernism
Clint Burnham, Simon Frasier University, Canada
12. The Tripwire of Modernism: Hunger as Function and Ornament
Simon Hajdini, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
13. Fixing Repetition: Lacan, Beckett, and the Exhaustive Obsession of Counting
Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India
14. Queer Company: Henry James and Ghosts
Luke Thurston, Aberystwyth University, UK
Part III. Glossary
15. Cut
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
16. Ethics
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
17. Fantasy
Calum Neill, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
18. Gaze
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
19. Letter
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
20. Object a
Nicholas Stock, University of Birmingham, UK
21. Psychosis
Stijn Vanheule, Ghent University, Belgium
22. R. S. I.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA
23. Sexuation
Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland
Notes on Contributors
Index
