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Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and? brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the “sound of O” in Othello; Jane Gallop asks “Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?”; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan examines Lacan?s seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating collection of work should still be required reading, especially for students of literature. But Psychoanalysis and? demonstrates that psychoanalysis ? and theoretical criticism, and feminism, and Lacanian theory, and semiotics, and Marxism, and deconstruction, and literary criticism ? was, at the time, a rich and expanding terrain.