T. R. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University. His books include A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style and Today's Composition Classroom.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Recovering the Unconscious: Pedagogy's Other Side

1. The Crisis: Forfeiting Our Most Valuable Asset

2. Contemporary Composition Studies: Development Means Joining Our Community, and That's All There Is to Know

3. Why the "Growth" Movement Didn't Grow-And an Alternative

4. Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Some Historical Context and Key Terms for Doing the Impossible

5. A Perfect Ignorance and Paralysis: The Discourse of the Master

6. Only Following Directions: The Discourse of the University

7. "Songs...dripping off my fingers": The Discourse of Hysteric

8. Playing by Ear: The Discourse of the Analyst

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