Sacrificed Lives
Part I
Chapter 1: Introduction
 | Framing the Problem of Violence |
| Kristeva's Psychoanalytic Theory: A Helpful Resource for Feminists? |
| An Outline of Life-Sentences |
Chapter 2: Kristeva in Context: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Beyond
| The Lacanian Context: Human Existence as a Practice of Absence |
| The Lacanian Context Subverted: Kristeva's Theory of the Unconscious |
| The Lacanian Context Enfleshed: Kristeva's Theory of Sacrifice |
| A Critical Context: Kristeva and Feminist Theory |
Kristeva and Social Constructionism
Kristeva and a Libidinal Economy
Chapter 3: The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Death-Work and Agency
| Drive Theory and Human Agency |
| Drive Theory and the Maternal Body |
| Drive Theory and the Fort/Da Game |
| Drive Theory, Laughter, and the Sign |
Chapter 4: In Search of the Mother in Mimesis: From Death-Work to Sacrifice
| From Heterogeneity to the Symbolic Order | ||||||
| An Orderly Death: Sacrifice and the Symbolic | ||||||
| René Girard: Mimesis and Murder
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| Kristeva: Mimesis, Mother, and Murder
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| Conclusion |
Part II
Chapter 5: 'This Is My Body:' Abjection, Anorexia, and Medieval Women Mystics
| Drawing the Line Somewhere: The Construction of Social Order |
Eating Order: Food and the Social Body
Out of Order: Women and the Social Body
| Holy Women, Holy Food, and Holy Order |
| Crossing the Line: Abjection and the Abyss |
Chapter 6: 'The Devils Are Come Down Upon Us:' The Witch as Scapegoat
| The Witch in Historical Perspective |
| The Witch as Scapegoat |
| The Witch in Mythic Perspective |
| Witch Hunts and the Work of a Sacrificial Economy |
The Truth of Torture
The Truth of Sacrifice
Chapter 7: Life-Sentences: The Mother in the Cultural Archives of the West
| Time's Truth |
| Femme Enceinte: Pregnant Body-Politics |
| The Scapegoat Among Us and the Stranger Within |
Analysis as a Practice of Strangeness
From Fascinated Rejection to Familiar Strangeness
A Cautionary Tale of Hoffmann
| In Quest of a Strange Politics: Religion, Feminism, Elsewhere? |
