Acknowledgements p. vii Introduction: reframing psychoanalytic concepts, or bricolage decomposed p. 1 1 Melancholia: lost objects of national, ethnic, classed, gendered and sexual identities p. 14 Introduction: political discourse as a form of mourning? p. 14 Theorizations of mourning and melancholia; Freud, Klein and Butler p. 17 The melancholic production of social identities: repression, disavowal and foreclosure p. 24 Conclusion: loss and politics p. 39 2 Overdetermination: the conceptualization of dreams and discourse p. 42 Introduction: the unconscious and discourse p. 42 Overdetermination: symbolic relations and psychical force p. 44 Free association and the body of the analyst: affect or symbolization as the technical apparatus for interpretation? p. 51 The interpretation of dreams, the construction of symbolic associations and the processes of condensation and displacement p. 56 Empirical analyses of overdetermination within discourse theory p. 63 Conclusions: methodological continuities and discontinuities p. 71 3 Textures of resistance: 'discourse' and 'psyche' and 'the compulsion to repeat' p. 76 Introduction: the opposition between 'discourse' and 'psyche' p. 76 Freud's conceptualization of resistance and/as the compulsion to repeat p. 79 Resonances and discontinuities between Foucault's conception of resistance and Freud's compulsion to repeat p. 83 Reflexivity and the analysis of resistance within the interpretive process p. 98 Conclusion: resistances within resistances p. 105 4 Signifying chains in academic practice: the appearance and disappearance of affect, politics and methodology p. 107 Introduction p. 107 Repression, disavowal and foreclosure: psychical relations in the field of discursivity p. 110 Conclusion: reflexivity, repression and disavowal p. 137 5 From psychic defences to social defences: recontextualizing strategies and Klein's theory of ego development p. 140 Introduction: psychical aspects of recontextualization p. 140 Two aspects of Melanie Klein's theory: the development of the infant ego and the psychic defence mechanisms p. 144 From psychic defence to social defence: the recontextualization of Kleinian ideas into organizational analysis p. 151 The articulation of 'psychic defences' within Basil Bernstein's theory of recontextualization p. 161 Conclusion: contrasting recontextualizations and the unconscious of power p. 170 Conclusion: troubling attachments p. 173 Notes p. 179 References p. 186 Index p. 192.