CONTENTS

Foreword

LAWRENCE D. KRITZMAN

Acknowledgments

I. SINGULAR LIBERTIES

1. MY ALPHABET; OR, HOW I AM A LETTER

2. RELIANCE: WHAT IS LOVING FOR A MOTHER?

3. HOW TO SPEAK TO LITERATURE WITH ROLAND BARTHES

4. EMILE BENVENISTE, A LINGUIST WHO NEITHER SAYS NOR HIDES, BUT SIGNIFIES

II. PSYCHOANALYSIS

5. FREUD: THE HEART OF THE MATTER

6. THE CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

7. A FATHER IS BEING BEATEN TO DEATH

8. MATERNAL EROTICISM

9. SPEAKING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: FROM SYMBOLS TO FLESH AND BACK AGAIN

10. AFFECT, THAT “INTENSE DEPTH OF WORDS”

11. THE LACAN EVENT

III. WOMEN

12. ANTIGONE, LIMIT AND HORIZON

13. THE PASSION ACCORDING TO TERESA OF AVILA

14. BEAUVOIR DREAMS

IV. HUMANISM

15. A FELICITY NAMED ROUSSEAU

16. SPEECH, THAT EXPERIENCE

17. DISABILITY REVISITED: THE TRAGIC AND CHANCE

18. FROM “CRITICAL MODERNITY” TO “ANALYTICAL MODERNITY”

19. IN JERUSALEM: MONOTHEISMS AND SECULARIZATION AND THE NEED TO BELIEVE

20. DARE HUMANISM

21. TEN PRINCIPLES FOR TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY HUMANISM

22. ON THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE

V. FRANCE, EUROPE, CHINA

23. MOSES, FREUD, AND CHINA

24. DIVERSITY IS MY MOTTO

25. THE FRENCH CULTURAL MESSAGE

VI. POSITIONS

26. THE UNIVERSAL IN THE SINGULAR

27. CAN ONE BE A MUSLIM WOMAN AND A SHRINK?

28. ONE IS BORN WOMAN, BUT I BECOME ONE

Notes

Index