Illusions of a future : psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire / Kate Schechter.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

An imaginary of threat and crisis -- Analysis deferred (or, the talking cure talks back) -- Instituting psychoanalysis in Chicago : two pedagogies of desire -- Professionalization and its discontents : the theory of obedience and the drama of "never splitting" -- The plenty of scarcity : on crisis and transience in the Fifty-First Ward -- On narcissism : "our own developmental line".

Includes bibliographical references and index.