The trial(s) of psychoanalysis / edited by Françoise Meltzer.

Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1988.

295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Most of the essays in this volume originally appeared in Critical inquiry, Winter 1987, (volume 13, number 2)"--T.p. verso

Partial contents: History and psychoanalysis / Dominick LaCapra -- How to do the history of psychoanalysis : a reading of Freud's Three essays on the theory of sexuality / Arnold I. Davidson -- The secret of psychoanalysis : history reads theory / Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok -- Notes on the phantom : a complement to Freud's metapsychology / Nicolas Abraham -- Descartes' dreams and Freud's failure, or the politics of originality / Françoise Meltzer -- The struggle of psychiatry with psychoanalysis : who won? / Sander L. Gilman -- Reading the mother tongue : psychoanalytic feminist criticism / Jane Gallop -- Psychoanalysis and Marxism / Ernesto Laclau -- The idea of a psychoanalytic literary criticism / Peter Brooks

Partial contents: Psychoanalysis and the place of jouissance / Stephen Melville -- Withholding the missing portion : psychoanalysis and rhetoric / Stanley Fish -- The intertextual unconscious / Michael Riffaterre -- Psychoanalysis and cinema : the melodrama of the unknown woman / Stanley Cavell -- Mystics, prophets, rhetorics : religion and psychoanalysis / David Tracy -- Acheronta movebo / Jean Starobinski.

Includes bibliographical references and index