Works

Books

The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist-Psychoanalytic Interpretation (Cornell University Press, 1985).

In Dora’s Case (Columbia University Press, 1985, 1990).

Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Nine Lives: My Risky Road from Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic (Brandylane Publishers, 2025)

Selected Essays

“Cats Go For Your Throat,” Passager, (Winter, 2023)

“Acolyte,” Persimmon Tree, (Special Issue, Fall, 2022)

“Whatever Happened to Wang,” Litro Magazine, Essay: Saturday, (July 3, 2021).

“Maternal Rage: Double Dipping in Language and Experience,” Women’s Studies, Volume 50(4), (2021) Available online here.

“My Mother’s Story: Memento Mori,” Persimmon Tree, (Winter, 2021).

“Time and Trauma in The Child in Time”. American Imago (Winter, 2020). Winner of the Silberger Prize from the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

Review: “Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts by Ellen Pinsky,” American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences” (Fall, 2018).

“Some brief observations of my time at Shakespeare and Company, Paris.” Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart. Ed. Krista Halverson. Paris: Shakespeare and Co., September 27, 2016.

“What happened in 1910, Virginia.” Virginia Woolf and 1910: Studies in Rhetoric and Context. Ed. Makako Minow-Pinkney. Illuminati Books, 2014.

Review: “On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.” fort/da (Spring, 2012).

“Bad Timing: The Problematics of Intimacy in On Chesil Beach.” PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts: September 20, 2011.

“The Smile of the Cheshire Cat: Uncovering the Author in the Text.” Women’s Studies, Volume 39(02), (March, 2010)

​“The Double and the Absent in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Psychoanalytic Encounters: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Applied Psychoanalysis. Ed. A. ​Dimitrijevic, M. M. Schwartz & E. M. Fox (Spring, 2009).

“A Contract to Terminate: Mourning the End of the Transference.” First prize, Phyllis Meadow Award, 2007, Modern Psychoanalysis (Spring, 2008).

“Ian McEwan’s Saturday,” fort/da (Spring, 2007).

“A Samizdat for our Times.” Berkeley Planet, January 13, 2006.

Review: “Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back, Janice Haaken.” Rutgers University Press, 1998. in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003, vol.4, no.2.

“The Revision of Rage: Flannery O’Connor and Me” Massachusetts Review, XLVI, No.3 (Fall, 2005).

“Uncanny Sights: The Anticipation of the Abomination” in Trauma at Home: After 9/11, ed. Judith Greenberg. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

“Geographies of Loss.” Shaping Losses. Ed. Julia Epstein and Lori Lefkowitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

“Dark Mirrors: A Feminist Reflection on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor.” Feminist Consequences. Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka. Columbia University Press, (2000).