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An analysis of the concepts of negativity & the feminine, & their formation into an ethic in the works of Julia Kristeva, with particular reference to her ambivalent relation to the theories of Jacques Lacan, which form the psychoanalytic roots of her formulation. It is suggested that Kristeva's & Lacan's use of gender categories is flawed through their failure to recognize "She, the Other of phallocentric discourse," within the categories of masculine/feminine themselves. A deconstruction of the fully gender-differentiated subject sheds new light on the normative dimension of gender differentiation. It is argued that the Oedipal myth continues to depend on humans' psyches, social lives, & the predominance of identity-bound thought; particular reference is made to Theodor Adorno's ideas on identitarian thought & his rejection of the Hegelian identity-logical exclusion of otherness. It is suggested that the rigid categories of the structuralist-psychoanalytic account of gender be abandoned, calling to attention its own insights into the mediating role played by language. K. Hyatt

Frontmatter -- contents -- introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- chapter 1. Beginning with Literature -- chapter 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution -- chapter 3. Always the Other Who Decides -- chapter 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- chapter 5. Derrida at Montaigne -- chapter 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty -- chapter 7. Calculus -- chapter 8. A Proper Death -- chapter 9. Figures of Interest -- chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions -- chapter 11. Furman and Finitude -- chapter 12. The Heart of the Other? -- chapter 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name -- contributors -- index