Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

Clinical and philosophical perspectives on key issues and debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Situates Lacan’s theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.

Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.

Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction.

An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Traces the development of Lacanian theory, and its possible future.

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory.

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.

An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.

Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.

Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.

Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.

Leading voices in literary and cultural studies examine the study of literature at the college level, including the fate of theory, the rise of cultural studies, the academic “star” system, and the difficult job market.

Examines the figure of the cannibal as it relates to cultural identity in a wide range of literary and cultural texts.