Passions of Our Time (Paperback)

Foreword, by Lawrence D. Kritzman
Acknowledgments
Part 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
Part 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
Part III. Women
12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon
13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
14. Beauvoir Dreams
Part 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
Part V. France, Europe, China
23. Moses, Freud, and China
24. Diversity Is My Motto
25. The French Cultural Message
Part 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