The Jacqueline Rose reader

"Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and psychoanalysis. During the past decade, through talks and pieces that Rose has contributed to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and other publications, she has played a vital role in public debate about the policies and human-rights record of Israel in its relation to the Palestinians. Representing the entire spectrum of her writing, The Jacqueline Rose Reader brings together essays, reviews, and book excerpts, as well as an extract from her novel. In the introduction, the editors provide a profound overview of her intellectual trajectory, highlighting themes that unify her diverse work, particularly her commitment to psychoanalytic theory as a uniquely productive way of analyzing literature, culture, politics, and society. Including extensive critical commentary, and a candid interview with Rose, this anthology is an indispensable introduction for those unfamiliar with Jacqueline Rose's remarkably original work, and an invaluable resource for those well acquainted with her critical acumen."--Publisher's description.

Representing the entire spectrum of her writing, this book brings together essays, reviews, and book excerpts by the noted intellectual.

Femininity and its discontents -- Feminine sexuality : Jacques Lacan and the Ecole freudienne -- Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein -- Mass psychology -- States of fantasy -- Just, lasting, comprehensive -- Apathy and accountability : the challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the intellectual in the modern world -- The body of evil : Arendt, Coetzee, and 9/11 -- "Imponderables in thin air?" : Zionism as psychoanalysis (critique) -- Sexuality in the field of vision -- Hamlet : the "Mona Lisa" of literature -- Virginia Woolf and the death of modernism -- "Daddy" -- Peter Pan and Freud : who is talking and to whom? -- Excerpts from Albertine : a novel -- "Infinite justice" -- We are all afraid, but of what, exactly? -- Why Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews -- Reflections on Israel's 2008 incursion into Gaza -- Why Howard Jacobson is wrong -- Holocaust premises : political implications of the traumatic frame -- A conversation between Jacqueline Rose and the editors.