First Things: Reading the Maternal Imaginary (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I Preconceptions -- 1. Freud’s Mnemonic: Screen Memories and Feminist Nostalgia -- 2. In Parenthesis: Immaculate Conceptions and Feminine Desire -- 3. Russian Tacics: Freud’s “Case of Homosexuality in a Woman” -- Part II Melancholy Figures -- 4. In Love with a Cold Climate: Travelling with Wollstonecraft -- 5. Makhus, Matricide, and the Marquis de Sade -- 6. Replacing the Race oi Mothers: AlI)S and The Las Man -- Part III The Origin of Signs -- 7. “Tea Daddy”: Poor Mrs. Klein and the Pencil Shavings -- 8. “‘Cos of the Horse”: The Origin of Questions -- 9. Poi-trait of the Artist as a Young Dog -- Part IV Theory at the Breast -- 10. Incorruptible Milk: Breast-feeding and the French Revolution -- 11. Baring the Breast: Mastectomy and the Surgical Analogy -- 12. Narcissa’s Gaze: Berthe Morisot and the Filial Mirror -- Index.