Table of contents : Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction The Black Room and the Opaque Place of Jouissance I Early Encounters with the Other “Royal Beatings” Fantasy, Desire, and Pickled Arseholes “Princess Ida” Sublimation, Repression, and the Return of the Repressed “Boys and Girls” The Assumption of Sexed Subjectivity II Feverish Feminine Transport: Desire, Jouissance, and Love “Eskimo” Fantasy and Beyond “Too Much Happiness” Feminine Jouissance “Tell Me Yes or No” The Love Letter III Epilogue The Truth of the Fixion Notes Works Cited Index