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Taking Chances

Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

Joseph H. Smith, M.D., and William Kerrigan

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Through its engagement with literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical texts, Taking Chances introduces a critical vocabulary... with which to analyze questions of influence in a theoretical way.

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216
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9780801837494
Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies
Chapter 2. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions
Chapter 3. The Double Game: An

Introduction
Chapter 1. My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies
Chapter 2. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions
Chapter 3. The Double Game: An Introduction
Chapter 4. Atoms Again: The Deaths of Individualism
Chapter 5. Institutional Authority vs. Critical Power, or the Uneasy Relations of Psychoanalysis and Literature
Chapter 6. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls"
Chapter 7. Goethezeit
Index

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Joseph H. Smith, M.D.

Joseph H. Smith, M.D., is supervising and training analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and president of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion.
William Kerrigan
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William Kerrigan

William Kerrigan is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His books include The Idea of the Renaissance, written with Gordon Braden, and Hamlet's Perfection, both available from Johns Hopkins.