Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. The Story of the Book Seen Retrospectively: Preface to the New Edition 1
4. 1 Writing and Madness, or Why This Book 11
5. PART ONE MADNESS AND PHILOSOPHY
6. 2 Foucault! Derrida: The Madness of the Thinking! Speaking Subject 35
7. PART TWO MADNESS AND LITERATURE
8. 3 Gérard de Nerval: Writing Living, or Madness as Autobiography 59
9. 4 Gustave Flaubert: Living Writing, or Madness as Cliché 78
10. 5 Honoré de Balzac: Madness, Ideology, and the Economy of Discourse 101
11. PART THREE MADNESS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
12. 6 Jacques Lacan: Madness and the Risks of Theory (The Uses of Misprision) 119
13. 7 Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation) 141
14. AFTERTHOUGHTS
15. 8 Madness and the Literary: Toward the Question of the Book 251
16. APPENDIX: INTERVIEWS
17. The Literary Thing (Interview between Shoshana Felman and Jacques-Alain Miller, editor of the Lacanian journal Ornicar) 259
18. The Literary Thing: Its Madness, Its Power (Conversation between Philippe Sollers and Shoshana Felman for the journal Tel Quel) 263