Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Psychoanalysis and its Rivals • Democracy and its Rivals • Psychoanalysis and Democracy: Basic Principles • Speech and Space
Chapter 1 ∞ The Space Between
Chapter 2 ∞ The Fundamental Rule: Freedom in Psychoanalysis
Antecedents to the Talking Cure • The Fundamental Rule • Free Association as Transference Address • Mutual (Free) Association • Free Association, Transference, and the Subject’s Democratizing Agency
Chapter 3 ∞ The Paradox of Freedom and the First Amendment
Speech and the Ethic of Surrender • Paradoxes of Freedom • Fuck the Draft
Chapter 4 ∞ What Is Special About Speech?
Experimentation and Enlightened Speech • Moral and Instrumental Rationales for Free Speech • Why is Speech Special? The Matter of Truth • Psychoanalysis and Democracy: The Ethic of Symbolic Life
Chapter 5 ∞ The Polis, Analysis, and Excluded Voices
Origins • The Polis and Parrhesia • Boundaries, Barriers, and Women’s Place
Chapter 6 ∞ Repression
Between Subjection and Self Rule • Repression and Reconstruction • Subversion and Danger
Chapter 7 ∞ Free Speech? For Whom?
Enfranchisement and Opportunity • Between Absorbtion and Marginality • Facilitating Environments and Voice
Chapter 8 ∞ Facilitating Speech
Failed Environments and Psychoanalytic Outreach • From Clinic to Constitution: Towards an Active Public Sphere • Sharing Responsibility, Sharing Ownership: Bridging Private and Public
Chapter 9 ∞ Hate Speech, Survival, Love
Offense, Injury, and Danger • Hate Speech, Winnicott, and Survival • Asymmetrical Regulation: Speech Content in Context
Chapter 10 ∞ Enshrined Ambiguity: Drawing Lines Between Speech and Action
Local Contexts and Boundary Setting • Enshrined Ambiguity: “Regulated” Freedom • An Illustration from Clinical Practice • Speech and Action: Line Drawing • Cultivating Symbolic Speech
Chapter 11 ∞ On Having No Thoughts: Freedom in the Context of Feminine Space
It Takes Two • The Sounds of Silence • Having No Thoughts: The Missing Female Genital
Chapter 12 ∞ Metaphors of Space
From Retreat to Relationship • Metaphors of Space in Psychoanalytic Theory • Towards a Space Between
Chapter 13 ∞ Phallic Fantasy and Vaginal Primacy
Engagement, Resistance, and Genital Configuration • The Vagina Speaks • Between Absence and Presence: The Somethingness of Feminine Space
Chapter 14 ∞ Laws of Lack and the Feminine Law
Between a Masculine and a Feminine Law • Beyond Obscuration, Boundary Setting • A Baggage Claim Dream • The Psychosomatic Frontier and our Democratic Project
Chapter 15 ∞ Naming Absence: Towards a Third Space
Signs and Names • Naming the Gap: the Feminine Metaphor • Naming Desire, Naming Truth • On Metaphors and Gaps: Naming the Vaginal Void • The Unnamed, the Poetic, the Traumatic
Chapter 16 ∞ Clinical Interlude: The Body Announces Itself
Chapter 17 ∞ Free Speech on the Playground of Desire
Knowing and Not Knowing • Attachment, Courage, and Agency • Attachment Theory, Semiotic Agency, and the Talking Cure • How Dissociation Becomes Free Association • Erotics and Attachment: Towards a Third Space
Chapter 18 ∞ Coda: Homeland Security and the Secure Home Base
The Transference of Faith and Freedom • Detours from Desire’s Enlightenment • Having and Having Not • Encouraging Courage • The Cases for Intervention • Further Etymological Excursions on the Journey Home • Towards a Feminine Law
References
Index