Introduction / Greg Forter and Paul Allen Miller -- Psychoanalysis and the future of cultural criticism -- Sartre, politics, and psychoanalysis : it don't mean a thing if it ain't got das ding / Paul Allen Miller -- Psychoanalysis, religion, and cultural criticism @ the new millennium / Henry Sussman -- Psychoanalysis and collectivity -- Lacan's four discourses : a political reading / Slavoj iek -- Signs of desire : nationalism, war, and rape in Titus Andronicus, Savior, and calling the ghosts / Deneen Senasi -- Psychoanalysis and the author -- Moving beyond the politics of blame : let us now praise famous men / Kaja Silverman -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, psychobiography, and the fin-de-siècle crisis in masculinity / Greg Forter -- Psychoanalysis and sexuality -- Desiring death : masochism, temporality, and the intermittence of forms / Domietta Torlasco -- Sadistic and masochistic contracts in Voltaire's La pucelle d'Orléans and Graffigny's Lecture d'une péruvienne ; or, what does the hymen want? / Sharon Nell -- Queer(ing) pleasure : having a gay old time in the culture of early modern France / Pierre Zoberman