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This book would never have been written without the unfailing support of my mother Gayle Bozeman Van Pelt. It was Nancy Blake who introduced me to Lacan and to the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts, the group who first showed me Lacan in an international context. My respect and gratitude extends to the many scholars who have shared ideas with me at the conferences of IPSA and of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. To the people who read parts of the manuscript along the way and offered suggestions and encouragement, my gratitude: Nancy Blake, Peter Garrett, Michael Shapiro, Richard Wheeler, Maire Jaanus, Jonathan Westphal, Sharon Sieber, Kassie Fleisher, Kathy Davis, Shuli Barzilai, and Virginia Blum. Hélène Varsamidou, ma maîtresse, corrected my fractured French with more patience than I deserved. My gratitude as well to the readers (known to me only by their letters), and to my editors James Peltz and Henry Sussman for their insights. To the philosophers at Idaho State University and to the participants in philosophy paper exchange, my appreciation for creating an intellectually sustaining environment. Finally, to those friends without whose affection this whole academic experiment would have been meaningless—thanks for going the distance with me. To Robert Johnson, to Jackie Gerard and “the Girls,” to Sheryl Landrum, Glenda Allen, Linda Mehrens, Robert McRuer, Tom Murray, Shuli Barzilai, Virginia Blum, Dacia Soulliere and the “Idaho survivors,” my love. xi Acknowledgments Page xii blank. ...