Quixotic Desire

by Ruth Anthony El Saffar

• ISBN13: 9780801428234
• ISBN10: 0801428238
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2019-06-07
• Publisher: Cornell University Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Texts
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
The Discourse of Affiliation
Cervantes as Cultural Ancestor of Freud	p. 23
The Discourse of Desire
The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quixote	p. 37
Cervantes and the Night Visitors: Dream Work in the Cave of Montesinos	p. 59
Cervantes and the Unconscious	p. 81
Fragmented Heroes, Fragmented Texts
Mirroring Others: A Lacanian Reading of the Letrados in Don Quixote	p. 93
The Whole Body of Fable with All of Its Members: Cervantes, Pinciano, Freud	p. 117
Sancho's Jokework	p. 135
The Other's Story: Interpolation and Disruption
In Marcela's Case	p. 157
Against the Law: Mad Lovers in Don Quixote	p. 179
Curious Reflex, Cruel Reflections: The Case for Impertinence	p. 200
"The Captive's Tale": Race, Text, Gender	p. 227
The Mother's Story: Incorporation and Abjection
Cervantes and the "Terrible Mothers"	p. 239
"The Pretended Aunt": Misreading and the Scandal of the Missing Mothers	p. 255
The Phantom of Montilla	p. 264
Berganza and the Abject: The Desecration of the Mother	p. 292
Notes on Contributors	p. 315
Index	p. 319
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.