abjection 37, 78, 78n. 18, 115, 119, 142, 187, 202, 241, 269
Achebe, Chinua 147n. 1
Adorno, Theodor 2n. 1, 6, 21–2, 24n. 18, 89–90, 90n. 3, 108, 233n. 20, 272
aesthetics xviii, xxi, 2, 4, 20n. 15, 56, 82–3, 86–7, 89, 90n. 3, 115–21, 151–2, 154–5, 162, 165, 168–71, 183, 217n. 9, 220n. 11, 221, 223, 226–7, 230, 232, 234–6, 267, 272
algae 60
alienated labor 29n. 3, 89, 144, 148–50, 153, 155
alienation xiv, 88–9, 90n. 3, 93, 95–6, 99, 99n. 9, 114, 129–30, 132–3, 144, 149, 171, 226–7, 231
alterity see otherness
Althusser, Louis xiv, xvi, xviii, 18n. 11, 32, 102–4, 103n. 12, 106–7, 109–13, 112n. 19, 115–20, 126, 210, 218, 218n. 10, 237
ambiguity (aesthetic) 160, 160n. 7, 164
animals/animality xiii, xvi, 28–32, 34–6, 39–40, 42–3, 46, 49, 59–60, 61n. 1, 62–5, 62n. 1, 70, 72, 76–7, 140–3, 192, 255, 258n. 7, 269
anthropogenesis xiii, 28–30, 40–2, 44, 46, 51, 59–60, 65, 69, 76, 87, 94, 142, 149, 192, 197, 269n. 15, 271
antiphysis xiii–xvi, 28n. 2, 29, 31, 49, 73n. 11, 77, 87, 108, 117, 121, 130n. 4, 143, 177, 183, 185, 192
Arnold, Matthew 155n. 4, 158n. 6, 160
asses 35
Aufhebung (sublation) xviii–ix, 99n. 9, 127–9, 131n. 5, 133, 136–8, 193, 234
aura 93
Bahri, Deepika 239–40, 243, 253–5, 259, 263
Baker, Houston 154n. 3
Barthes, Roland xii–xiv, xx, 12n. 8, 16–17, 18n. 12, 48–9, 48n. 1, 54n. 5, 82, 90n. 1, 108–9, 174–5, 178, 185, 202, 213, 215–17, 217n. 9, 220, 238, 247, 256–7, 259
base/superstructure 158, 158n. 5
Baudrillard, Jean 229, 229n. 18
Beardsley, Monroe 157
bears 36
Beauvoir, Simone de xxi, 247–9
being (ontological) xiii–xviii, 6–7, 14, 30, 31n. 4, 33n. 6, 36–7, 40–43, 46, 50–1, 53, 55, 57–60, 61n. 1, 64, 69–70, 70n. 9, 78, 80, 83–5, 94n. 6, 95–7, 101n. 10, 119, 127n. 3, 129–30, 130n. 4, 132, 134n. 6, 135–6, 143, 149, 150n. 2, 180, 185, 189–90, 196–8, 202, 205n. 3, 206n. 4, 209–10, 215, 224, 233n. 20, 239, 250, 252
Benjamin, Walter xix, 90n. 10, 93, 148, 150–1, 153, 158, 165, 226–7, 233n. 20, 249n. 2
Berg, Alban 235
Bergman, Ingrid 140n. 9
Berlant, Lauren xxii, 264n. 11, 266
Bersani, Leo 254
Bérubé, Michael 10
Bhabha, Homi 9n. 3, 202, 243–4, 243n. 25
binary opposition 190, 205, 205n. 3, 212n. 8, 258n. 7, 266n. 14
birds 36
Birmingham School 27, 27n. 1, 232, 233n. 20, 246
Bloom, Harold 16
Borromean knot 31n. 4
Brooks, Cleanth xix, xxi, 154, 157–65, 160n. 7, 173, 186, 250
Butler, Judith xx, xxin. 1, 58, 89, 90n. 1, 125, 125n. 1, 126n. 2, 200, 200n. 5, 251–3, 255
Cameron, James 228
capitalism 6–7, 29n. 3, 89, 90n. 3, 105, 112, 112nn. 17–18, 113n. 20, 115, 118, 149–50, 154n. 3, 155, 224, 227, 229–32, 232n. 19, 233n. 20, 234, 234n. 21, 239, 243–4, 263, 270
castration (symbolic) xvii, 60, 74, 87, 192–3, 197–9, 210, 272
cathexis 189
Césaire, Aimé 234n. 21
Cézanne, Paul 237
Childers, Joseph 10n. 5, 11n. 7, 20, 22n. 16, 27n. 1, 54n. 4, 78n. 18, 84n. 25, 94n. 6, 112n. 19, 113n. 20, 133n. 6, 138n. 8, 155n. 4, 156, 158n. 5, 190n. 3, 251, 252n. 5, 254n. 6
Chilvers, Ian 170n. 8
Christ see Jesus
Cixous, Hélène xii, xxi, 20, 20n. 15, 87, 257–9, 272
clarity xv, 2, 15, 20–3, 108–9, 109n. 16
Clark, T. J. 237n. 22
Close, Chuck 237
cogito xviii, 93–6, 94n. 6, 119
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 257
commodity fetishism 2n. 1, 4, 6–7, 12, 93, 111–13, 113n. 20, 148–9, 228, 233n. 20, 244
compulsory heterosexuality 102, 252, 252n. 5
contradiction 9, 11–12, 19n. 14, 99n. 9, 109, 127–30, 136–7, 147, 159, 204, 207–8, 227n. 17, 233n. 20
Copjec, Joan 253
Critchley, Simon xv, 24n. 18, 121
Culler, Jonathan xi, xv, 1–5, 7, 9–15, 17, 23, 174–5, 179, 251, 272–3
cultural studies 3, 27, 27n. 1, 233n. 20, 237, 243
cyborg 227n. 17, 258, 258n. 7, 263
De Lauretis, Teresa 247
Dean, Tim 200n. 5, 253, 265–6, 271n. 1
death xvii–xviii, xxii, 17, 40, 56, 59, 66, 66n. 4, 68, 68n. 5, 70n. 9, 71–3, 74n. 13, 75–6, 75n. 15, 77n. 17, 80n. 21, 81–4, 86n. 26, 131–2, 136, 138–9, 141–4, 163, 205n. 3, 215, 217, 229, 256, 267
death drive xvii, xxii, 66–73, 66n. 4, 68n. 5, 75, 77, 79, 80n. 21, 81–6, 83n. 23, 226, 234n. 21, 267–9, 271
deconstruction xx, 23, 23n. 17, 156, 165, 179, 205, 205n. 3, 206, 211n. 5, 213–15, 220, 245–6, 252–4, 259, 266n. 14
defamiliarization xiv, xix, 2, 10, 10n. 5, 16, 22, 65, 89, 90n. 3, 95, 120, 165, 168–71, 173, 183, 212, 271
Demme, Jonathan 80n. 21
demystification 89–90, 90n. 3, 255
Derrida, Jacques xx, 8, 10, 11n. 7, 13, 17–20, 23n. 17, 24, 64, 70n. 9, 82, 86, 96, 133n. 6, 190n. 3, 202–4, 202n. 1, 204n. 2, 205n. 3, 206n. 4, 208–15, 211n. 5, 212nn. 7–8, 217, 220–1, 238, 243, 246, 255, 266
Descartes, René 93, 94n. 6, 119
dialectic xix, 99–100, 99n. 9, 108–9, 126–7, 127n. 3, 129, 130n. 4, 131n. 5, 133–5, 133n. 6, 137, 137n. 7, 139, 141, 144, 149, 206–7, 209, 225, 227, 227n. 17, 231, 231n. 19, 233n. 20, 234, 234n. 21
différance xiv, 204, 204n. 2, 206n. 4, 208, 211–12, 266, 266n. 14
difference xx, 6, 9, 9n. 1, 23, 24n. 18, 43, 50–1, 57, 61n. 1, 63, 71–2, 74n. 13, 84, 97–8, 101n. 10, 121, 130, 140, 161, 166, 173–4, 178–9, 183, 189–90, 192, 197, 199, 201, 204–6, 204n. 2, 205n. 3, 206n. 4, 209, 212n. 7, 213–15, 222–3, 233, 238, 240, 243, 249, 251–2, 255, 268
discourse 14, 18–20, 18n. 10, 82, 96, 115, 117–18, 126, 167, 174, 181, 190n. 3, 202, 204, 209, 211, 213, 217–20, 240, 258, 260–1, 267
disinterestedness 155, 155n. 4
displacement xx, 39, 147n. 1, 185–7, 189–91
dogs (puppies) 29, 35–6, 62, 64, 69, 148, 159
doves 148
Duras, Marguerite 257
eagles 60
Eagleton, Terry xi, xix, 151, 153, 154n. 3, 157–8, 168, 190n. 3
earthworms 60
Edelman, Lee xxii, 32, 266–9, 271–2
Ehsan, Ehsanullah 248n. 1, 249n. 2
Eichenbaum, Boris 152
elephants xvi, 49–50, 55, 57, 77
Enlightenment xxi, 21, 90n. 3, 138, 138n. 8, 144, 149, 202, 221, 225–7, 225n. 14, 240, 244–5
epistemology 83, 94–5, 94n. 6, 99n. 9, 119–20, 165, 168–9
Erbion, Didier 117n. 21
Eros/Thanatos 66, 66n. 4, 75, 77, 87
erotic stratifications 264
essentialism (essence, anti-essentialism) xxi, 9, 9n. 4, 12n. 8, 17, 23, 109, 129, 155, 168, 175–6, 179, 197, 202–3, 205n. 3, 243n. 25, 247, 250–5, 257–9, 266
Eugenides, Jeffrey 214
Evans, Dylan xiv, 31n. 4, 186n. 2
exchange xvi, 18, 36–7, 39, 39n. 1, 40–1, 46, 58–9, 199, 214, 225, 251, 264n. 12
fabula 54n. 4
false consciousness 21, 90n. 3, 103, 103n. 12
fantasy/fantasmatic 6, 12, 14, 38–9, 60, 67, 74n. 12, 98n. 8, 100, 194–6, 222, 226–7, 246–7, 267–8, 272
Farias, Victor 70n. 9
Faulkner, William xviii, 1, 79, 235
feminism ix, xiv, xxi–xxii, 9, 11–12, 91, 195, 227, 234–5, 237, 247–67, 249n. 2, 250nn. 3–4, 258n. 7, 260n. 8, 261n. 10, 264n. 12
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 127, 127n. 3
fictionality xii–xiii, xvi, 12, 48–9, 51, 54, 54n. 3, 55, 57–8, 65, 70, 72, 81–3, 85–6, 117, 121, 178, 191, 195, 202, 204, 208, 220, 241, 254, 257–9, 271
Fiske, John 233n. 20
formalism (Russian, Anglo-American) xiv, xix–xx, 54n. 4, 90n. 2, 120, 146–71, 173–4, 183
fort-da xvii, 67–71, 68n. 5, 69n. 7, 70nn. 8–9, 93, 96, 248
Foster, Jodie 80n. 21
Foucault, Michel xii, xviii, xx–xxi, 5–6, 11, 15–16, 84–7, 90n. 3, 116–21, 118n. 22, 125, 126n. 2, 144, 201–2, 208, 211, 213, 215, 217–23, 218n. 10, 220n. 11, 239–40, 243, 246, 266
Frankfurt School 232, 233n. 20, 237
Freccero, Carla xxii, 265n. 13, 266n. 14, 271
Freud, Sigmund xii, xvi–xvii, xx, 6n. 2, 30, 33n. 6, 37–8, 39n. 1, 43, 45–6, 46n. 5, 53–4, 54n. 6, 61n. 1, 63, 63n. 3, 66–9, 66n. 4, 68nn. 5–6, 69n. 7, 70n. 8, 74nn. 12–14, 79n. 20, 83–4, 95, 98, 100, 101n. 10, 109n. 16, 172, 172n. 1, 181, 184, 186–90, 194–5, 197, 199, 210, 218n. 10, 227n. 16, 240
Gagnier, Regina 18n. 11
Garner, Margaret 147
Gauguin, Paul 236
gender xiv, xx, 2, 11n. 7, 12, 32, 38, 80n. 21, 84, 97, 97n. 7, 157, 164, 180, 233–4, 237, 239, 247–70
Genet, Jean 257
gerbils 52
Gibson, Andrew 16
Gifford, Don 97n. 7
Gikandi, Simon 238n. 23
Gilbert, Sandra 250n. 4
Giotto (di Bondone, Giotto) 170, 236
globalization 234, 234n. 21, 244
God 16, 28n. 2, 86n. 26, 90n. 1, 133, 133n. 6, 135–9, 162–4, 202–3, 205n. 3, 207, 215–17, 225–6, 256, 262
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1
Grass, Günter 1
Gray, Francine du Plessix xxi, 248–9
Greenblatt, Stephen 90n. 2, 102, 114, 120
Gubar, Susan 250n. 4
Habermas, Jürgen xxi, 221, 232–3, 233n. 20, 236, 243
Halberstadt, Ernst (Freud’s grandson) 67–70, 68n. 6, 69n. 7, 70n. 8, 93
Halberstadt, Sophie (Freud’s daughter) 70n. 8
Halberstam, Judith xv, 23, 115, 271, 274
Hall, Stuart xii, xv, 16, 27, 27n. 1, 233
Halperin, David xxii, 254, 266
Haraway, Donna xxi, 227n. 17, 233, 241, 255, 258–9, 258n. 7, 263
Hardt, Michael xv, 5–7, 16, 108, 108n. 15, 274
Hegel, G. W. F. xii, xiv, xvii–xix, 22n. 16, 99n. 9, 116, 125–45, 126n. 2, 127n. 3, 130n. 4, 131n. 5, 133n. 6, 137n. 7, 149, 155, 193, 210, 222, 225, 247, 272–3
hegemony 2n. 1, 112n. 19, 154, 231n. 19
Hemingway, Ernest 235
Hentzi, Gary 10n. 5, 11n. 7, 20, 22n. 16, 27n. 1, 54n. 4, 78n. 18, 84n. 25, 94n. 6, 112n. 19, 113n. 20, 133n. 6, 138n. 8, 155n. 4, 156, 158n. 5, 190n. 3, 251, 252n. 5, 254n. 6
heteronormativity 264–5, 264nn. 11–12, 267–70
Hoggart, Richard 233n. 20
Horkheimer, Max 2n. 1, 6, 21–2
Houston, Whitney 267
Hughes, Langston 154n. 3
human reality (world) xiii, xv, xx, xxii, 3–6, 16, 18, 19n. 14, 24, 27–33, 31n. 4, 35, 37–41, 46, 48–9, 62, 64–5, 70, 72, 76–8, 81, 86, 89, 90n. 3, 96–7, 101n. 10, 103, 106, 108–9, 115–17, 121, 140–1, 144, 149, 174–5, 179, 185, 190, 192, 196, 199, 201, 209, 212, 228, 247, 259, 272, 273n. 2
humanism (anti-humanism) 11, 11n. 7, 16–17, 24, 89, 103n. 12, 203, 210–11, 226, 243n. 25
iconic/indexical/symbolic signs 51, 176–8, 180, 195
identity xx, xxii, 10, 18n. 10, 48–9, 62n. 2, 78n. 18, 87–91, 90nn. 1, 3, 97, 99, 99n. 9, 115, 118, 125, 129–30, 142–4, 199, 202, 204n. 2, 205n. 3, 217, 233n. 20, 239, 241, 243n. 25, 251, 254–5, 254n. 6, 259, 261–2, 264n. 11, 266–7
identity politics 1, 254, 254n. 6, 259, 265–7
ideological/repressive state apparatuses xvii, 102, 112, 112n. 19
ideology xviii, 2n. 1, 89, 90n. 2, 101–14, 101n. 10, 103n. 12, 112nn. 17–19, 115, 121, 156, 203, 218, 218n. 10, 225, 267–9
immediacy/mediation 38, 128–30, 132, 134–5
interpellation xiii, xviii, 110–13, 112n. 17, 115, 118, 180, 218
interpretation xvii–xviii, xx, 17–18, 20, 24, 54n. 6, 67–8, 70, 72–3, 75–6, 78n. 19, 79–86, 80n. 22, 83n. 23, 84n. 25, 86nn. 26–7, 88, 137n. 7, 149, 160, 195, 201–3, 202n. 1, 206n. 4, 210, 211n. 6, 255, 271
Inwood, Michael 128, 134–5, 138
irony 71, 87, 136, 142–3, 150, 158–65, 160n. 7, 166, 200n. 5
James, P. D. 268
Jameson, Fredric xii, xv, xviii, xxiii, 2n. 1, 3–4, 10, 10n. 5, 12, 14, 18–19, 19nn. 13–14, 27, 28n. 2, 29n. 3, 48, 53, 89–90, 90n. 3, 99n. 9, 104, 112, 112n. 18, 126–8, 126n. 2, 127n. 3, 131n. 5, 133n. 6, 134, 137n. 7, 144, 165, 172, 174, 203, 229–34, 231n. 19, 233n. 20, 237, 244, 272
Jesus 88, 115, 137–9, 148, 162–4
John Paul II (Pope) 270
Johnston, Adrian xiv, 19n. 14, 33n. 6, 126n. 2, 130n. 4, 131n. 5, 133n. 6, 134–5
Joni (dog) 62
jouissance xii, 75, 75n. 15, 227
Joyce, James 54n. 3, 97n. 7, 235
Kant, Immanuel 90n. 3, 138n. 8, 149, 155n. 4, 225, 225n. 14, 244
Kasdan, Lawrence 229
Kavanagh, James 103, 106–7, 110, 115
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah 219
King, Dr. Martin Luther 141n. 10
Kojève, Alexandre xvii, 59, 70, 140–3
Koons, Jeff 237
Kristeva, Julia 78, 78n. 18, 87, 92, 259
labor xiii, xv, xvi, 16, 27, 29n. 3, 31, 72, 89, 101, 104–5, 108–9, 113, 133n. 6, 142, 144, 148–50, 150n. 2, 153, 155–6, 158, 243
Lacan, Jacques xii–xix, 11, 13, 17, 23, 30–4, 31nn. 4–5, 33n. 6, 40–1, 41n. 2, 43n. 3, 45–6, 46n. 5, 51–5, 59–61, 61n. 1, 63–5, 70, 72, 74–7, 74n. 13, 79–80, 82–3, 85, 93–7, 97n. 7, 99–102, 99n. 9, 101n. 10, 113, 119–20, 130n. 4, 133, 133n. 6, 140, 172, 172n. 1, 180–1, 184–200, 186n. 2, 190n. 3, 200n. 5, 210, 245, 247, 272–3
lack 60, 61n. 1, 70, 72, 81, 95, 97, 99n. 9, 136, 175, 178, 180, 185, 189–92, 194–8, 209–10, 212
Laclau, Ernesto 125n. 1
Laplanche, Jean 63n. 3, 66n. 4
law 7, 18n. 10, 50, 55, 72, 75–8, 77n. 17, 90, 90n. 1, 121, 167, 175, 185, 188, 190n. 3, 192, 196–7, 199, 207, 213, 216, 223, 270
Law, Cardinal Bernard Francis 270
Lazarus, Neil xxi, 238, 243–4, 246
lemurs 192
Lichtenstein, Roy 237
lobsters 31
logocentrism 190n. 3
Lorre, Peter 241
love 42–3, 68n. 5, 88, 114, 199, 226
Lucas, George 229
Lucy, Niall 202n. 1, 204n. 2, 205n. 3
Lyotard, Jean-François xxi, 221–2, 226–7, 233, 235
Macdonald, Dwight 237
Malabou, Catherine 19n. 14, 126n. 2
Malone, Dorothy 242
Malpas, Simon 18n. 11, 75n. 15, 84n. 25, 118n. 22, 183, 204n. 2, 212nn. 7–8, 217n. 9, 234n. 21, 258n. 7
Marcuse, Herbert 233n. 20
Marx, Karl xii–xiii, 5–6, 6n. 2, 8, 20, 27–31, 28n. 2, 29n. 3, 42, 74, 84, 90n. 3, 102, 104, 113, 116–19, 117n. 21, 139, 144, 148–50, 150n. 2, 153, 207, 223, 226n. 15, 231, 231n. 19, 244, 246, 255, 263
marxism/marxian xxi, 2n. 1, 22, 27–8, 28n. 2, 29n. 3, 90n. 3, 104, 115–17, 117n. 21, 133n. 3, 140, 144, 153, 158n. 5, 209, 218n. 10, 223, 229, 231n. 19, 232–4, 237, 243–4, 243n. 25, 246, 254, 264–5
mass/popular culture 1, 21, 232, 233n. 20, 234, 237–8
materialism/materiality xiii, xv–xvi, 19–20, 19nn. 13–14, 27–32, 28n. 2, 104, 108, 117, 133n. 6, 149–51, 158, 227n. 17, 250, 258, 263
materialist semiotics/semiotic materialism xv–xvii, xix, 19–20, 19nn. 13–14, 27, 31–2, 53, 73, 152, 157, 211, 250
Matisse, Henri 235
meaning xii, xv–xvi, xx, 2–3, 7–19, 19n. 14, 23–4, 31–47, 49–51, 53–5, 57–60, 61n. 1, 62, 64–8, 70–3, 78–81, 80n. 21, 85–7, 90n. 1, 94–5, 99n. 9, 104, 107, 109–10, 109n. 16, 112n. 17, 114, 121, 126n. 2, 127–8, 133n. 6, 157, 159, 160n. 7, 162, 164–5, 169, 173, 175, 179, 183, 185, 188–93, 197–9, 201–2, 204n. 2, 206n. 4, 211–16, 219–20, 223, 231, 233, 239, 243n. 25, 247, 253–4, 257, 266, 268–9, 269n. 15, 271–2, 274
metalanguage 184
metanarrative 221–2, 227, 233, 246
metaphor xvi–xvii, xix–xx, 6n. 2, 22n. 16, 42–3, 57, 79, 80n. 22, 97n. 7, 103n. 12, 138–9, 159–65, 160n. 7, 166–7, 170, 180–91, 196, 203, 208, 258
metaphysics xx, 17, 17n. 9, 23, 120, 133n. 6, 173, 179, 190n. 3, 201–2, 204–5, 204n. 2, 205n. 3, 208–12, 214, 220, 246, 254
metonymy xix–xx, 80n. 22, 166–7, 170, 180–91, 199, 203, 208
mice 36
Milani, Farzaneh 97n. 7
Miller, George 228
Miller, Matt 111
Mills, Jon 130n. 4
mirror stage xviii, 31n. 4, 93–102, 97n. 7, 101n. 10, 113–14
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade xxii, 234n. 21, 259–63, 261n. 10
Moi, Toril 74n. 13, 249, 250n. 4
mollusk 64
Nachträglichkeit/deferred action 100
Nancy, Jean-Luc xviii, 11nn. 6, 13, 125, 126n. 2, 131n. 5, 139, 144–5, 272–3
narrative/narration xvii, 4, 31n. 4, 54, 54nn. 4–5, 58, 72–3, 79, 99, 112n. 17, 137, 144, 194–5, 221–2, 227, 233, 235, 239, 246, 264n. 11, 267–8, 271
need/demand/desire xvii, 41–3, 43n. 3, 60–5, 68–9, 72, 77
negation (negativity) 2n. 1, 6, 17, 21–2, 44, 49, 51–2, 55, 58–9, 72, 82, 87, 108, 126, 129, 130–2, 131n. 5, 134–8, 143–4, 166–7, 179–80, 182–3, 191–2, 224, 231n. 19, 271–3
Negri, Antonio 28
Nehamas, Richard xiii, 86n. 27
Nietzsche, Friedrich xii, xvi, xviii–xxii, 6n. 2, 20, 61n. 1, 62n. 2, 80–6, 80n. 22, 83n. 23, 84n. 24, 86nn. 26–7, 90n. 3, 95, 98, 116–17, 119–20, 169, 201–11, 202n. 1, 206n. 4, 211n. 6, 215, 220n. 11, 221, 223, 245–6, 254, 256, 259, 263
no to the real xvi–xvii, 49, 52–3, 55, 58, 72, 73n. 11, 74–6, 78, 185, 196
normativity (anti-normativity) 15, 17, 32, 41, 49, 51, 55, 76, 78, 102, 114, 119–20, 194–5, 229–30, 234, 240–2, 247–8, 264–5, 266n. 14, 267–9
nothingness 59, 62, 65, 70–1, 84, 86–7, 205n. 3
oceanic feeling 30, 53, 57, 61, 61n. 1, 72, 74, 80, 80n. 21, 97–8, 193
onto-theology 210
ontology 94–5, 94n. 6, 99n. 9, 119–20, 134, 210
orientalism xxi, 239–41, 242n. 24, 243
otherness (alterity) xiv, 24, 45, 125, 127n. 3, 132, 133n. 6, 156, 171, 178–9, 201–2, 245, 267
panopticism 118, 118n. 22, 180, 218
Parker, Robert Dale 2n. 1, 157, 160, 173–4
Pearson, Keith Ansell 17n. 9, 256
Peirce, Charles Sanders 176
penisneid (penis envy) 194
performative/constative utterances 54n. 5, 251–2, 255
phallogocentrism xx, 190n. 3, 197, 199, 210, 257
phenomenology 22, 22n. 16, 116, 126, 133n. 6
Picasso, Pablo 93n. 4, 235, 237
pigs 25
Pillay, Navi 234n. 21
Plato (Platonism) 74n. 14, 155, 173, 190n. 3, 205–6, 205n. 3, 210, 229n. 18
pleasure/reality principles xvi, 34–47, 39n. 1, 53, 64–7, 109n. 16, 194
political xiii, xviii–xix, 4, 12, 17–18, 18n. 12, 20–1, 20n. 15, 32, 41, 88–90, 90nn. 1, 3, 101–2, 112n. 19, 114–17, 121, 144, 153–4, 156–8, 165, 170–1, 178, 205, 212, 224–6, 227n. 17, 230, 234n. 21, 238–43, 250, 253–5, 257–8, 258n. 7, 260–3, 261n. 10, 265–7, 265n. 13, 272
polymorphous perversity 74, 74n. 12, 114, 194, 271
Pontalis, Jean-Baptiste 63n. 3, 66n. 4
Portman, John. 230
Pound, Ezra 235
prematurity at birth (human) 32, 34, 61, 97, 103, 115, 247
principium individuationis 61n. 1
project of modernity 221–2, 246
queer (queer theory) ix, xiv, xx–xxii, 12, 23, 32, 76n. 16, 200, 204, 227, 241–3, 247, 253–4, 264–70, 265n. 13, 266n. 14, 269n. 15, 271–3
Rabaté, Jean-Michel xiv, xviii, xxii, 3, 22n. 16, 121, 125, 133n. 6, 145, 273
Rabinowitz, Peter J. 147n. 1
Ransom, John Crowe 154n. 3
Rasmussen, E. D. 125
rat 179
real/imaginary/symbolic xvii, 30–3, 31n. 4, 43, 43n. 3, 51, 60, 62–5, 62n. 2, 68–9, 69n. 7, 86, 95, 97–8, 98n. 8, 207, 268, 272
reception theory/reader response 217, 217n. 9
recognition (misrecognition) 29n. 3, 40–3, 65, 76, 90n. 3, 93, 95, 98, 107, 109–10, 113–14, 120, 125, 132, 133n. 6, 140–4, 155, 194, 199, 243n. 25
referent 52, 52n. 2, 169, 177, 183, 213–14
reification xii, 2–4, 2n. 1, 6–8, 12, 20–2, 22n. 16, 24, 85, 90n. 3, 109n. 16, 121, 152–3, 157, 165, 272
repetition compulsion 66
representational pleasure 36–8, 42–3, 47
repression 24, 44–6, 62, 89, 100, 118, 186, 186n. 2, 192–4, 199, 204, 206, 208, 239–40, 245, 251, 257, 272
reproductive futurism xxii, 267–9, 269n. 15
Rich, Adrienne 252n. 5
Richter, David xi, 23n. 17, 155, 158n. 6
Richter, Gerhardt 237
Riley, Denise 253
Rivkin, Julie 152
Rubin, Gayle xxi–xxii, 251, 264, 264n. 12
Rushdie, Salman 219
Ruti, Mari 271n. 1
Ryan, Michael 152
Said, Edward xxi, 27, 112n. 19, 239–41, 243, 262, 272
Salih, Sarah 171
Sartre, Jean-Paul 116–17, 119, 222
Saussure, Ferdinand de xx, 13, 23, 48–9, 52n. 2, 172–4, 176–9, 181–5, 188–9, 191–2, 196, 204n. 4, 209–10, 212nn. 7–8
Schoenberg, Arnold 235
Schopenhauer 61n. 1
Scott, Joan 251
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky xxi–xxii, 239–41, 243, 255, 266, 268
sedimentation/de-sedimentation 22–4, 22n. 16, 23n. 17
semiotics xiv, xix–xx, 18–19, 27, 31, 152, 157, 172–3, 175, 180, 265
separation 30–1, 31n. 4, 49–51, 55, 61–2, 61n. 1, 62n. 2, 66, 72, 74–80, 80n. 21, 98, 188, 191–3, 196, 199
sex xvii, xx–xxi, 12, 37, 55, 59, 62n. 2, 66, 73–9, 73n. 11, 74nn. 12–14, 76n. 16, 77n. 17, 79n. 20, 80n. 21, 81, 83, 100, 102, 104, 117–18, 156, 164–5, 180, 185, 187, 189–98, 226, 233–4, 239–43, 247–52, 252n. 5, 254n. 6, 255, 257, 259, 264–70, 264nn. 11–12, 265n. 13, 269n. 15, 272
Shakespeare 1, 8, 54n. 6, 64, 78n. 19, 96, 104, 156, 179, 186, 223n. 13, 226, 249
Shepard, Matthew 77n. 17
Shklovsky, Viktor xix, 10, 90n. 3, 120, 165–70, 173, 182–4
sign 18, 18n. 10, 23, 32, 51–2, 55, 170, 172–3, 175–80, 183–5, 191–2, 209, 212n. 8, 223
signifier/signified xvii, xx, 51–3, 52n. 2, 75, 96, 176–9, 183, 191–3, 196–7, 211, 212n. 7
Smith, Jason 23
Socrates 208
speech/writing 190n. 3, 205n. 3, 212n. 8
spirit (Hegelian) 130–3, 131n. 5, 133n. 6, 136–9, 144
Spivak, Gayatri xxi, 15, 243–5, 254–5, 259, 263
Sprinker, Michael 246n. 26
Stoltenberg, John 262
Strachey, James 33n. 6
strategic essentialism 254
Stravinsky, Igor 235
subject xiii, xv, xvii–xviii, 5–6, 18, 18nn. 10–11, 27, 30–3, 31n. 4, 33n. 6, 37, 40–1, 45, 49, 52, 54–5, 60, 62, 65, 72, 74nn. 12–14, 75, 91, 95–103, 98n. 8, 99n. 9, 101n. 10, 106–7, 108n. 15, 109–13, 115–20, 125, 129–32, 134, 143, 180, 185, 189–93, 197, 203, 211n. 6, 218–20, 222–3, 226–7, 229, 231–3, 243n. 25, 245, 250, 256, 259, 261, 265n. 13
sublation see Aufhebung
substance 49–50, 132, 134, 166, 168, 174, 182–3, 186, 190, 271
substitute gratification see representational pleasure
substitution 37–40, 39n. 1, 182, 188–9, 196–7, 208–9, 219
sujet 54n. 4
Suleri, Sara 234n. 21
Summers, Lawrence 249n. 2, 261n. 9
symbolic compensation see representational pleasure
symbolic order xiii, 18n. 11, 31n. 4, 32–3, 36, 40–1, 43, 48, 51, 53–5, 60, 62n. 2, 65, 74–5, 78–80, 78n. 18, 95, 119, 185, 192–3, 197, 270
symptom 21, 46, 111, 153, 186, 186n. 2, 189, 229–31, 243, 247, 252
syntagmatic/paradigmatic, horizontal/vertical, axes 181–4, 187–9, 228
Tate, Allen 154n. 3
Teena, Brandon 77n. 17
teleology 133, 133n. 6, 208, 226
tenor/vehicle 161
tension 160, 160n. 7, 162–4, 169
thing-presentations xvii, 63–5
Thomas, Calvin 70n. 9, 180, 198n. 4, 250n. 3, 253, 265n. 13
Thompson, E. P. 233n. 20
trauma 45–6, 46n. 5, 62n. 2, 66, 74n. 13, 78, 80n. 21, 88, 185, 187, 189
unconscious xix–xx, 12, 18n. 11, 33n. 6, 36, 45–6, 46n. 5, 54n. 6, 55, 60, 66–7, 72, 78n. 19, 79, 80n. 21, 81, 83n. 23, 95–6, 98n. 8, 103, 103n. 12, 119, 160, 167–8, 172, 179, 181, 185–9, 197, 202, 209–10, 264n. 11, 271–2
unity (aesthetic) 152, 154, 157, 159–60, 160n. 7, 162–5, 168, 173, 202, 222
Van Gogh, Vincent 237
Vico, Giambattista 27–8, 28n. 2, 239–40, 262
vultures 140n. 9
Wachowskis, the 101n. 10
Wake, Paul 18n. 11, 75n. 15, 84n. 25, 118n. 22, 183, 204n. 2, 212nn. 7–8, 217n. 9, 234n. 21, 258n. 7
Warhol, Andy 237
Warner, Michael xxi–xxii, 264n. 11, 265–6, 272
Warren, Rick 105n. 13
Warren, Robert Penn 154n. 3
Webern, Anton 235
whales 62
White, Susan 242n. 24
Wilder, Billy 229
Williams, Raymond 233n. 20
Wilson, Dooley 140n. 9
Wimsatt, W. K. 157
Wittig, Monique 12
Woolf, Virginia xix, 156–8, 235, 249, 261n. 9
Wordsworth, William 154
world see human reality
Yeats, William Butler 212n. 7
Yovel, Yirmiyahu 127n. 3, 128, 132, 137n. 7
Žižek, Slavoj xiii–xv, 2, 6–7, 6n. 2, 19n. 14, 23, 41n. 2, 43, 45, 46n. 5, 48, 59, 61n. 1, 62, 70, 72, 84, 87, 97, 99n. 9, 125–6, 125n. 1, 126n. 2, 130n. 4, 133n. 6, 172n. 1, 234n. 21, 245, 253, 260–2, 274