Reading Jacqueline Rose: An Introduction / Ben Naparstek and Justin Clemens  1

Part I. Analysis  

Introduction to Part I  27

1. Femininity and Its Discontents  31

2. Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne  48

3. Negativity in the Work of Melanie Kline  61

4. Mass Psychology  86

Part II. Nation  

Introduction to Part II  117

5. States of Fantasy  123

6. Just, Lasting, Comprehensive  138

7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World  156

8. The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee, and 9/11  170

9. "Imponderables in Thin Air": Zionism as Psychoanalysis (Critique)  188

Part III. Representations  

Introduction to Part III  215

10. Sexuality in the Field of Vision  221

11. Hamlet: The "Mona Lisa" of Literature  228

12. Virginia Woolf and the Death of Modernism  242

13. "Daddy"  257

14. Peter Pan and Freud: Who Is Talking and to Whom?  274

15. Excerpts from Albertine: A Novel  300

Part IV. Interventions  

Introduction to Part IV  315

16. "Infinite Justice"  319

17. We Are All Afraid, But of What, Exactly?  320

18. Why Zionism Today Is the Real Enemy of the Jews  322

19. Reflections on Israel's 2008 Incursion into Gaza  326

20. Why Howard Jacobson Is Wrong  328

21. Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame  332

22. A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose  341

Notes  361

Jacqueline Rose: A Select Bibliography, 1974–2010  413

Index  419

Justin Clemens

Ben Naparstek

“Google's motto is ‘Don't Be Evil,’ but is there something near to evil in writing itself? So suggests a superb essay here, ‘The Body of Evil,’ which brings together Hannah Arendt, JM Coetzee, and the aftermath of 9/11. ‘People using the term “evil” all sound the same,’ comments Rose, in a piece that shows off her discursively probing style to best effect... The rest of the collection sees a psychoanalytic reading of Peter Pan, an intriguing defence of Sylvia Plath's notorious poem ‘Daddy,’ and interesting interventions on Eliot-on-Hamlet, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Melanie Klein, and Israel-Palestine (with Amos Oz a key reference). The editors do a fine job of introducing the work.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian

“The Jacqueline Rose Reader offers “an insightful and informative overview of the output (so far) of a provocative and influential writer. It will be an important resource for teachers and students of psychoanalytic theory, of literary studies, and of cultural studies, and, hopefully, will introduce new readers to Rose’s wide-ranging and valuable work.”—Hannah Priest, Feminism and Psychology

“Google's motto is ‘Don't Be Evil,’ but is there something near to evil in writing itself? So suggests a superb essay here, ‘The Body of Evil,’ which brings together Hannah Arendt, JM Coetzee, and the aftermath of 9/11. ‘People using the term “evil” all sound the same,’ comments Rose, in a piece that shows off her discursively probing style to best effect... The rest of the collection sees a psychoanalytic reading of Peter Pan, an intriguing defence of Sylvia Plath's notorious poem ‘Daddy,’ and interesting interventions on Eliot-on-Hamlet, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Melanie Klein, and Israel-Palestine (with Amos Oz a key reference). The editors do a fine job of introducing the work.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian

“The Jacqueline Rose Reader offers “an insightful and informative overview of the output (so far) of a provocative and influential writer. It will be an important resource for teachers and students of psychoanalytic theory, of literary studies, and of cultural studies, and, hopefully, will introduce new readers to Rose’s wide-ranging and valuable work.”—Hannah Priest, Feminism and Psychology

“Jacqueline Rose is one of our most trenchant, politically engaged intellectuals. It will be important for a wide range of readers to have this collection of her essays, along with the introduction—which will help readers unfamiliar with the full range of her work—and the splendid interview that concludes the volume.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley

“Jacqueline Rose, friend and ally, achieves what many of us attempt: to preserve the delicacy of a training in literary reading in the tough realities of the political. She made psychoanalysis possible for a whole generation. This book gives a sense of the range: analysis, text, war—from South Africa to Palestine.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University

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