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
Works Cited
Index