9. Against the Law: Mad Lovers in Don Quixote

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Texts xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. I. The Discourse of Affiliation
8. 1. Cervantes as Cultural Ancestor of Freud 23
9. II. The Discourse of Desire
10. 2. The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quixote 37
11. 3. Cervantes and the Night Visitors: Dream Work in the Cave of Montesinos 59
12. 4. Cervantes and the Unconscious 81
13. III. Fragmented Heroes, Fragmented Texts
14. 5. Mirroring Others: A Lacanian Reading of the Letrados in Don Quixote 93
15. 6. The Whole Body of Fable with All of Its Members: Cervantes, Pinciano, Freud 117
16. 7. Sancho's Jokework 135
17. IV. The Other's Story: Interpolation and Disruption
18. 8. In Marcela's Case 157
19. 9. Against the Law: Mad Lovers in Don Quixote 179
20. 10. Curious Reflex, Cruel Reflections: The Case for Impertinence 200
21. 11. "The Captive's Tale": Race, Text, Gender 227
22. V. The Mother's Story: Incorporation and Abjection
23. 12. Cervantes and the “Terrible Mothers" 239
24. 13. “The Pretended Aunt": Misreading and the Scandal of the Missing Mothers 255
25. 14.The Phantom of Montilla 264
26. 15. Berganza and the Abject: The Desecration of the Mother 292
27. Notes on Contributors 315
28. Index 319