Femininity, the sexual, hysteria. The beginning of analysis should hysterize the subject. Hence, hysterical or not, the obliged path will set forth division; Supposed Knowledge incarnates the Other and the subject appears in this Other.
Catherine Liu is the director of the University of California Irvine’s Humanities Center, a professor in Film and Media Studies, and the coeditor of The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road. She is the author of Oriental Girls Desire Romance (a novel), Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, and American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique.