Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Affect in the Scene of Writing 1
4. 1 Thinking Confusion: On the Compositional Aspect of Affect 24
5. 2 Expression and Theatricality, or Medium Poe 47
6. 3 Maisie’s Spasms: Transferential Poetics in Henry James and Wilfred Bion 72
7. 4 Loose Coordinations: Theater and Thinking in Gertrude Stein 96
8. 5 Vis-à-vis Television: Andy Warhol’s Therapeutics 119
9. Out and Across 150
10. Notes 153
11. Bibliography 167
12. Index 179
13. Acknowledgments 187