Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Writing and Madness
6. 1 Writing and Madness From ‘‘Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)’’ 13
7. 2 Foucault/Derrida: The Madness of the Thinking/Speaking Subject 51
8. 3 ‘‘You were right to leave, Arthur Rimbaud’’: Poetry and Modernity 70
9. Part 2 The Literary Speech Act
10. 4. From The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages 109
11. Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body 132
12. Afterword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body 142
13. Part 3. reading and sexual difference
14. 5. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality: Balzac, ‘‘The Girl with the Golden Eyes’’ 153
15. 6. From ‘‘Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from Which Psychoanalysis Proceeds’’ 179
16. Response: On Asking Again: What Does a Woman Want? 201
17. Part 4 Psychoanalysis and the Question of Literature
18. 7 To Open the Question 211
19. 8 From ‘‘Beyond Oedipus: The Specimen Text of Psychoanalysis’’ 219
20. 9 Flaubert’s Signature: The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable 248
21. Response: Hölderlin’s Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer 275
22. Part 5 Trauma and Testimony
23. 10 From ‘‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’’ 293
24. Response: For Shoshana Felman: Truth and Art 315
25. 11 From ‘‘The Storyteller’s Silence: Walter Benjamin’s Dilemma of Justice’’ 322
26. Part 6 Beyond the Law
27. 12 A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law 349
28. Response: On ‘‘Missed Encounter(s)’’: Law’s Relationship to Violence, Death, and Disaster 387
29. Response: Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem 393
30. Part 7 Felman as Teacher
31. 13 Plato’s Phaedo 423
32. 14 Between Spinoza and Lacan and Us 448
33. Photo Gallery 475
34. Notes on Contributors 483
35. Notes 485