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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Entering the Garden 1 chapter 1 The Kiss of Death: Desire in the Garden of Good and Evil 21 chapter 2 The Art of Sapphic Desire: The Curse of the Little Phrase 51 chapter 3 The Hymenoptera of Self and Other: The Making and (Un)Making of Knowledge 93 chapter 4 Three Moments of Desire: The Ideal, the Real, and the Remembered 143 chapter 5 Recherche and the Rankian Gaze 175 Conclusion: The Art of Madness 217 References 237 Index 241 Contents ...

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