Todd McGowan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The Feminine "No!": Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Psychoanalysis after Marx

1. From Prohibition to Enjoyment

2. The Decline of Paternal Authority

3. Embracing the Image

4. Shrinking Distances

5. Interpretation under Duress

6. The Appeal of Cynicism

7. The Politics of Apathy

8. A Missing Public World

9. Explosions of Incivility, Aggressiveness, and Violence

Conclusion: From Imaginary Enjoyment to Its Real Counterpart

Notes

Index