Issue 129 articlesEditor's Column: Social Symptomsp. 1Mark BracherArticlesClosed Systems, Social Symptoms, and Social Changep. 28David P. LevineCapitalism, Psychic Immiseration, and Decentred Subjectivity1p. 41Kathryn DeanSophistic Humor and Social Change: Overcoming Identification with the Aggressorp. 57Mark H. WrightCultural Hierarchies, Splitting, and the Dynamic Unconsciousp. 65Lynne LaytonThe “Cause” of Sex; or, the Discontent of Liberal Theoryp. 72Susan VarneyOur “Salvation”: Women's Intervention in Philosophyp. 77Jennifer L. HansenIs the Prohibition of Incest a Law?p. 86Judith Feher GurewichSocial Bond and Authority: Everyone is the Same in Front of the Law of Differencep. 91Paul VerhaegheRevolutionary Neurotics and the Cunning of Conservatismp. 97Mary CaputiResisting Passion: Pedagogy and Power1p. 105Cynthia BurackNormal Politics as Murder: The Holocaust and Group Psychosisp. 115James M. GlassOn the Road Not Taken: “Revolt and Revenge” in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folkp. 121E. Victor WolfensteinComments on Caputi, Wolfenstein, Burack, and Glassp. 133C. Fred AlfordField NotesOn Subjectionp. 135Lynne LaytonOn Teaching Psychoanalysisp. 138Susan VarneyOn Listening in Music and Psychoanalysis1p. 139Alexander SteinOn White Researchers and Black Respondentsp. 145Simon ClarkeInternational NotesOn What Psychoanalysis Has to Offer Newly Democratizing Countries1p. 151Robert Maxwell YoungOn Psychoanalysis on the Witness Stand in Argentina and South Africap. 161Isaac TylimReviewsŽižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London and New York: Verso, 1999.p. 166James PenneyFarrell, Kirby. Posttraumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties. Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. Pp. ix, 357. Index.p. 169Jennifer TravisKrakauer, Erik. The Disposition of the Subject: Reading Adorno's Dialectic of Technology. Northwestern UP, 1998.p. 171Robert Hullot-KentorGilman, Sander L. Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998. Preface, ix-xii; 3-179 pp.p. 172Virginia BlumLane, Christopher. The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity. U of Chicago P, 1999. Pp. 322.p. 173Kathy Alexis PsomiadesMcKee Irwin, Robert and Silvia Molloy, eds. Hispanisms and Homosexualities. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.Letter to the EditorThe Lacanian Paradigmp. 184Lynne LaytonNotes on Contributorsp. 185
Issue 2 - Special Issue: Adolescent and School Violence24 articlesEditor's Column: Adolescent Violence and Identity Vulnerabilityp. 189Mark BracherArticlesThe Anatomy of Adolescent Violencep. 212Alan KrohnDisposable Youth: The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre as American Metaphorp. 217Howard F. SteinThe Relationship between Shame and Rage: Conceptualizing the Violence at Columbine High School1p. 237