Passions of Our Time

CONTENTS\nFOREWORD\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nI. SINGULAR LIBERTIES\n1. MY ALPHABET; OR, HOW I AM A LETTER\n2. RELIANCE: WHAT IS LOVING FOR A MOTHER?\n3. HOW TO SPEAK TO LITERATURE WITH ROLAND BARTHES\n4. EMILE BENVENISTE, A LINGUIST WHO NEITHER SAYS NOR HIDES, BUT SIGNIFIES\nII. PSYCHOANALYSIS\n5. FREUD: THE HEART OF THE MATTER\n6. THE CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS\n7. A FATHER IS BEING BEATEN TO DEATH\n8. MATERNAL EROTICISM\n9. SPEAKING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: FROM SYMBOLS TO FLESH AND BACK AGAIN\n10. AFFECT, THAT “INTENSE DEPTH OF WORDS”\n11. THE LACAN EVENT\nIII. WOMEN\n12. ANTIGONE, LIMIT AND HORIZON\n13. THE PASSION ACCORDING TO TERESA OF AVILA\n14. BEAUVOIR DREAMS\nIV. HUMANISM\n15. A FELICITY NAMED ROUSSEAU\n16. SPEECH, THAT EXPERIENCE\n17. DISABILITY REVISITED: THE TRAGIC AND CHANCE\n18. FROM “CRITICAL MODERNITY” TO “ANALYTICAL MODERNITY”\n19. IN JERUSALEM: MONOTHEISMS AND SECULARIZATION AND THE NEED TO BELIEVE\n20. DARE HUMANISM\n21. TEN PRINCIPLES FOR TWENTY- FIRST-CENTURY HUMANISM\n22. ON THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE\nV. FRANCE, EUROPE, CHINA\n23. MOSES, FREUD, AND CHINA\n24. DIVERSITY IS MY MOTTO\n25. THE FRENCH CULTURAL MESSAGE\nVI. POSITIONS\n26. THE UNIVERSAL IN THE SINGULAR\n27. CAN ONE BE A MUSLIM WOMAN AND A SHRINK?\n28. ONE IS BORN WOMAN, BUT I BECOME ONE\nNOTES\nINDEX