Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, PsychoanalysisCornell University Press, 1986 - 342 pages Primal Scenes is concerned with those elements in the thought of Freud and Heidegger which make us continue to regard them as our contemporaries. It seeks to reassert their radical potential, which, the author believes, has been minimized as as critics celebrate the radicality of Lacan, Derrida, and others. |
Contents
Preface II | 11 |
Introduction | 19 |
The Primal Scene and the Ends of Metaphysics | 45 |
Prosopopoeia | 68 |
Interdictions | 97 |
Freud and the WolfMan | 136 |
Mallarmés | 168 |
Shakespeare in the Ear of Hegel | 178 |
Marxs Reading of Balzac | 236 |
BenjaminDickensFreud | 275 |
Postscript | 337 |
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