The Wolf Man’s Magic Word A Cryptonymy Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok Translated by Nicholas Rand Foreword by Jacques Derrida		$20.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4858-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4858-0
An innovative literary analysis of Freud’s “Wolf Man.” The Wolf Man’s Magic Word reopens the examination of the “Wolf Man,” a Russian émigré who was Freud’s patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s work is at once the account of the Wolf Man’s psychological inventions, a reading of his dreams and symptoms, and a critique of basic Freudian notions. “To this day they call him the Wolf-Man. But did anyone really know why? You will know it. What takes place here—I am talking about an event and a monument—is analogous to an archeological dig. A monumental text is exposed to an interpretation whose daring and effectiveness vie with each other.” —Jacques Derrida “This book succeeds because of its very specific lexical interpretations coupled with a demonstration of how a genuine link between psychoanalysis and literary analysis can be established.” —Paul de Man Nicolas Abraham (1919-1975) was a philosopher and psychoanalyst. Maria Torok (1926–1998) practiced psychoanalysis in Paris. Nicholas Rand is professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was an influential French philosopher and literary critic. 208 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | October 2005 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 37