A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Queering Omniscience
1. The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited
I. "To Push" the Drives: Sigmund Freud's Productive Speculations
II. Economic Binding as the Death Drive: The Critique of Totalitarianism
III. Dynamic Binding as the Life Drive: Reparative Formations
2. "A Tempest in a Test Tube": The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
I. Introduction
II. The Weaves of Scientia Sexualis
III. Parody and Psychoanalysis as a Practice of Reading
IV. The Loss of Lolita, the Unbinding of Enlightenment
V. Conclusion
3. "An Ethics of Failure": Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves
I. Introduction
II. What is Queer about Failure?
III. Visual Literalization
IV. Failure and the Reparative
V. Conclusion
4. "Kill Your Children": Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars
I. Introduction
II. The Life Drive in War
III. Narrative Remediation
IV. Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification
V. Conclusion
5. Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
I. Introduction
II. Mourning Totality
III. Childhood: Objects and Phantasy
IV. Adolescence: Phantasy Theories
V. Childhood Redux: Art and the Thinking Subject
VI. Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index