American Imago

• Preface

  Peter L. Rudnytsky

  pp. 1-5

• Following Thoreau's “Tracks in the Sand”: Tactile Impressions in Cape Cod

  Sharon Talley

  pp. 7-34

• “An Agony of Pleasurable Suffering”: Masochism and Maternal Deprivation in Mark Twain

  Julio C. Avalos

  pp. 35-58

• Vladimir Nabokov and Sigmund Freud, or a Particular Problem

  Leland De La Durantaye

  pp. 59-73

• Bruno Bettelheim and the Psychoanalytic Feral Tale

  Kenneth Kidd

  pp. 75-99

• The Dreams That Blister Sleep: Latent Content and Cinematic Form in Mulholland Drive

  Jay R. Lentzner & Donald R. Ross

  pp. 101-123

• Crying at the Movies. Madelon Sprengnether. St. Paul, MN: Greywolf Press, 2002. 244 pp. $15.00 (pb).

  Stephen Walrod

  pp. 137-142

Letter from London

• On Practicing Therapy at 1:45 A.M.

  Brett Kahr

  pp. 125-131

Book Reviews

• Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing. Judith Harris. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. xv + 304 pp. $81.50 (hc), $27.95 (pb).

  Jeffrey Berman

  pp. 133-136

• Preface

  Peter L. Rudnytsky

  pp. 143-148

• Elisabeth von R. and the Logic of the Parasite

  Claudia Jost

  pp. 149-155

• Lingua Flora: Deciphering the “Dream of the Botanical Monograph”

  Diane O'Donoghue

  pp. 157-177

• Fragments of Jewish Identity

  Stephen Frosh

  pp. 179-191

• Hysteria, Identification, and the Family: A Rereading of Freud's Dora Case

  Naamah Akavia

  pp. 193-216

Letter from London

• On Patients Who Remove Their Clothing in Sessions

  Brett Kahr

  pp. 217-223

In Memoriam

• Rudolf Ekstein (1912-2005)

  David James Fisher

  pp. 225-233

Review Essay

• Contrapuntal Affiliations: Edward Said and Freud's Moses: Freud and the Non-European. Edward Said. London: Verso, 2003. 84 pp. $12.92.

  Richard H. Armstrong

  pp. 235-257

Book Review

• Sigmund Freud—Max Eitingon, Briefwechsel 1906-1939. 2 vols. Ed. Michael Schröter. Tübingen: edition diskord, 2004. x + 1050 pp. 77.00 EUR.

  G. W. Pigman

  pp. 259-262

• Preface

  Murray M. Schwartz

  pp. 263-268

• Winnicott and Imprisonment

  Brooke Hopkins

  pp. 269-283

• Between Two Deaths: Life on the Row

  Walter A. Davis

  pp. 285-313

• Getting Attica Out of Her Mind: A Psychoanalytic Memoir

  Dawn Skorczewski & Anni Bergman

  pp. 315-338

• Analytic Entrapment

  Esther Altshul Helfgott

  pp. 339-363

• Jean-Michel Rabatè, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxviii + 287 pp. $23.99 (pb).

  Shirley Sharon-Zisser

  pp. 381-387

Letter from London

• Why Freud Turned Down $25,000: Mental Health Professionals in the Witness Box

  Brett Kahr

  pp. 365-371

Book Reviews

• The Death-Ego and the Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis. Gavriel Reisner. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 277 pp. $55.00.

  Barbara Schapiro

  pp. 373-380

• Preface

  Peter L. Rudnytsky

  pp. 389-393

• Denial and Dissociation as Coping Strategies in Mothers' Postmortem Identification of Their Sons

  Slavica Jurcevic, Ivan Urlic & Mirela Vlastelica

  pp. 395-418

• Loss as Vanished Form: On the Anti-Memorial Sculptures of Horst Hoheisel

  Ellen Handler Spitz

  pp. 419-433

• Études on Loss

  Jill Salberg

  pp. 435-451

• Jouissance and Desire in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher

  Jean Wyatt

  pp. 453-482

• Zaretsky, Eli. Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis. New York: Knopf, 2004. 429 pp. $30.00.

  Louis Rose

  pp. 499-505

Letter from London

• How to Make a Forty-Seven-Minute Television Program in Only Three Years

  Brett Kahr

  pp. 483-491

Book Reviews

• Isidor Sadger, Recollecting Freud. Edited and introduced by Alan Dundes. Translated by Johanna Micaela Jacobsen and Alan Dundes. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. lvii + 138 pp. $26.95.

  Patricia Cotti

  pp. 493-498