| Between the Sign and the Gaze A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest ); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Carroll); Mont Blanc becomes the maternal breast (Shelley); Hamlet mistakes Ophelia for a phallus (Lacan's... Herman Rapaport holds the Helen L. DeRoy chair in the Department of English at Wayne State University. |