Psychoanalysis and ...

<p>Originally published in 1990 <i>Psychoanalysis and…</i> brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the sound of O in Othello; Jane Gallop asks Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan examines Lacan’s seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating collection of work should still be required reading especially for students of literature. But <i>Psychoanalysis and… </i>demonstrates that psychoanalysis – and theoretical criticism and feminism and Lacanian theory and semiotics and Marxism and deconstruction and literary criticism – was at the time a rich and expanding terrain.</p>