Esther Rashkin is Professor of French and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Utah and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She is the author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading

1. Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in "Babette's Feast"

2. Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration in Last Tango in Paris

3. Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the "Dirty War" and the Holocaust

4. Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity

5. Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axël

6. Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Conclusion
The Ghost of Cultural Studies

Notes
Index