.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $25.00. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be- tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. An infant and mother gaze into each...

... of the Classic Orphan Girl Story. By Joe Sutliff Sanders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2011. xi, 225 pp. $60.00. Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature. By Kenneth B. Kidd. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. xxvii, 297 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper...

... of their theories because they were looking at a text in dialogue with psychoanalysis’s antecedents. By recovering these antecedents, the essay shows that states of insensibility like sleepwalking—which Fiedler takes as figures for the unconscious—in fact had social and political meanings that even postcolonial...

... the “metalanguages” of psychoanalysis and Marxism as interpretive bases for seeking the “hidden, repressed, deep” meaning of texts. On the other hand, Best and Marcus contend that, “in the last decade or so, we have been drawn to modes of reading that attend to the surfaces of texts rather than plumb their depths...

...Benjamin Mangrum This essay charts the development of two entwined intellectual threads during the 1950s: the translation of European existentialism into an American idiom and what Nathan Hale describes as the “golden age of popularization” for psychoanalysis in the United States. I argue...

... World Press . Chen Mel Y. 2012 . Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Cheng Anne Anlin . 2000 . The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Cheng Anne...

... multiple paths (3). Singleton’s critique of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Color Purple (1982), highlights his theme that psychoanalysis and culture cannot be separated. In The Color Purple an invisible white presence shapes the way blacks perceive themselves as sexual beings...

..., that offers a potential springboard for resistance. For Breu, biopolitical theory assembles a diverse corpus of thought—new materalisms, object-oriented ontology, but also Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist historical materialism—with which to investigate the insistence of the material. These theoretical...

... questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea...

... and writers developed antiessentialist aesthetics that disrupt any easy concordance between surface and depth, image and text in the period, thereby questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis...

..., this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea of blackness that cannot be reduced to type. Ahad’s monograph does not limit its...

... and writers developed antiessentialist aesthetics that disrupt any easy concordance between surface and depth, image and text in the period, thereby questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis...

... questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea...

... and writers developed antiessentialist aesthetics that disrupt any easy concordance between surface and depth, image and text in the period, thereby questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis...

..., this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea of blackness that cannot be reduced to type. Ahad’s monograph does not limit its...

... questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea...

..., this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea of blackness that cannot be reduced to type. Ahad’s monograph does not limit its...

... and writers developed antiessentialist aesthetics that disrupt any easy concordance between surface and depth, image and text in the period, thereby questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis...

... questioning the viability of representation as a political strategy. For Ahad, this means tracing an aesthetic trajectory that uses psychoanalysis to foreground the psychology of race; for Thaggert, it means returning to projects that disrupt the readability of their own images to invoke an idea...

... the relationships between literary authors on the one hand and psychoanalysis and further therapeutic practices on the other. Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fic- tion. By Stella Bolaki. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2011. 283 pp. $84.00. Bolaki embraces the “compelling...