Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: Way beyond the Pleasure Principle -- The Opposition to Sublimation -- 1. The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Sublimation and Art -- 2. Meaning on Trial: Sublimation and The Reader -- 3. History and the Flesh: Caravaggio's Sexual Aesthetic -- 4. On Critics, Sublimation, and the Drive: The Photographic Paradoxes of the Subject -- Art and the Sinthome -- 5. Sublimation and Symptom -- 6. A Young Man without an Ego: A Study on James Joyce and the Mirror Stage -- 7. Art as Prosthesis: Cronenberg's Crash -- 8. "Se faire être une photographie": The Work of Joel-Peter Witkin -- Index