Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Lady Vanishes, but the Letter Remains: Julia Kristeva and the Maternal Real(m)
2. The Fear of Women and Writing in Spellbound: Kaja Silverman and the Question of Castration
3. Rebecca, Repetition, and the Circulation of Feminine Desire: Judith Butler and the Materiality of the Letter
4. Notorious: Luce Irigaray, Feminine Fluids, and Masculine (Be)Hind-Sight
5. Vertigo: Sexual Dis-Orientation and the En-Gendering of the Real
6. Marnie: Abjection, Marking, and Feminine Subjectivity
7. Rear Window Ethics: Laura Mulvey and the Inverted Gaze
8. The Birds: Zizek, Ideology, and the Horror of the Real
Epilogue: Psycho and the Horror of the Bi-Textual Unconscious
Notes
Index