James Penney is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the author of The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire, also published by SUNY Press.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Refusal of Love

Love in the Social
The Technique of Love
Resisting the Transference
Woman and the Riff-Raff
The Fall of the Other
From Partial Love to Anxiety

2. Socrates, Analyst

An Original Transference
Of Love Spheres and Stranded Vessels
A Pregnant Beauty
The Part of Love
Love, Ménage à Trois

3. Like a Pack of Rats

Will the Real Frantz Fanon Please Stand Up?
A Gift of Quinine
The Metropolitan View
The Pack of Rats

4. Loving the Terrorist

Massacre and Subjectivation
A Century of Violence
A Begging Bowl Made of Flesh
Of Grey Hair and Treachery

5. For the Love of Cinema

Imaginary Signifiers?
Species of Identification
Beyond the Phenomenon of Cinema
Proustian Obsession and the Failure of Spectatorship

6. Naked Love

Bodies of Theory
Painting in Nature
Nude and Naked
Tableau and Screen
Shameful Nudes
The Object of Art

Notes
Index