Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Writing and Madness -- 1 Writing and Madness From ''Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)'' -- 2 Foucault/Derrida: The Madness of the Thinking/Speaking Subject -- 3 ''You were right to leave, Arthur Rimbaud'': Poetry and Modernity -- Part 2 The Literary Speech Act -- 4. From The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages -- Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body -- Afterword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body -- Part 3. reading and sexual difference -- 5. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality: Balzac, ''The Girl with the Golden Eyes'' -- 6. From ''Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from Which Psychoanalysis Proceeds'' -- Response: On Asking Again: What Does a Woman Want? -- Part 4 Psychoanalysis and the Question of Literature -- 7 To Open the Question -- 8 From ''Beyond Oedipus: The Specimen Text of Psychoanalysis'' -- 9 Flaubert's Signature: The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable -- Response: Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer -- Part 5 Trauma and Testimony -- 10 From ''The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah'' -- Response: For Shoshana Felman: Truth and Art -- 11 From ''The Storyteller's Silence: Walter Benjamin's Dilemma of Justice'' -- Part 6 Beyond the Law -- 12 A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law -- Response: On ''Missed Encounter(s)'': Law's Relationship to Violence, Death, and Disaster -- Response: Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman's Journey to Jerusalem -- Part 7 Felman as Teacher -- 13 Plato's Phaedo -- 14 Between Spinoza and Lacan and Us -- Photo Gallery -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes