This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone psychoanalytic training, also provides us with a striking new way of exploring the limits of psychoanalysis.

Shaul Bar-Haim is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex. He is the author of The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State.

Elizabeth Sarah Coles is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where she researches post-critical writing, literary theory and contemporary Anglophone poetry. She is currently completing a monograph on the Canadian poet and Classicist, Anne Carson.

Helen Tyson is a Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature at the University of Sussex, where she is also a co-director of the Centre for Modernist Studies. Helen is writing a book about the scene of reading in modernist literature, psychoanalysis, and the bestseller.

Preface by Daniel Pick and Jacqueline Rose Part 1 The Mystic Writing Pad 1. Elizabeth Sarah Coles, 'D. W. Winnicott and the Finding of Literature' 2. Manuel Batsch, 'Project for a Scientific Psychology: The Impossibility of a Text' 3. Shahidha Bari, '"Where had she walked thus and whither was she going?": Freud, Ferrante and feet in Jensen's Gradiva Part 2 Mass Psychology 4. Nicky Falkof, 'Psychoanalysis and Satanism: A Case of Moral Panic in South Africa' 5. Ian Magor, 'Reconstructing Pinky' 6. Marita Vyrgioti, 'Freud and the Cannibal: Vignettes from Psychoanalysis' Colonial History' Part 3 The Location of Cultural Experience 7. Helen Tyson, '"Little Mussolini" and the "parasite poets": Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, Modernism, and the Illegible Child' 8. Catherine Humble, 'Exposed to the Other: Responding to the Refugee in Caroline Bergvall's Drift' 9. Theo Gordon, 'Between the Acts, or, Melanie Klein and the Representation of People with AIDS' Part 4 The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men 10. Danae Karydaki, 'Nazism's Inner Demons: Psychoanalysis and the Columbus Centre (1962-1981)' 11. Leah Sidi, 'Reaching into the Blind-Spot: Rape, Trauma and Identification in Blasted' 12. D'Maris Coffman, 'Freud, The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere'