Contents

Introduction: Affect in the Scene of Writing

1. Thinking Confusion: On the Compositional Aspect of Affect

2. Expression and Theatricality, or Medium Poe

3. Maisie’s Spasms: Transferential Poetics in Henry James and Wilfred Bion

4. Loose Coordinations: Theater and Thinking in Gertrude Stein

5. Vis-à-vis Television: Andy Warhol’s Therapeutics

Out and Across

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments