This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1
Laura Marcus
Part I Histories 13
1 The Freudian Century 15
Stephen Frosh
2 The Case Study 34
Andrew Webber
3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49
Carolyn Burdett
4 Back to Frankfurt School 66
Laurence A. Rickels
5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 82
Daniel Steuer
Part II Literatures 103
6 Freud's Textual Couch, or the Ambassador's Magic Carpet 105
Jean-Michel Rabaté
7 Freud's Double 122
Nicholas Royle
8 Medieval Dreams 137
Nicolette Zeeman
9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 151
Tim Dean
10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the "Case" of Adolescence 167
Pamela Thurschwell
Part III Visual Cultures 191
11 Intimate Volver 193
Frances L. Restuccia
12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216
Catherine Liu
13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233
Ankhi Mukherjee
14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 250
Patricia Gherovici
15 The Desert of the Real 271
Todd McGowan
Part IV Transformations 287
16 "One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis": Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289
Anna Kornbluh
17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312
Martin Hägglund
18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328
Maud Ellmann
19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351
Ranjana Khanna
20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367
Robert J.C. Young
21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385
Isobel Armstrong
22 Touching and Not Touching 410
Naomi Segal
Index 425