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A provocative book whose major contribution is, unquestionably, the lucid distillation of key psychoanalytic concepts. --JAC Acts of Enjoyment puts the work of Slavoj Zizek into dialogue with composition studies, a dialogue that's been resisted for far too long. Rickert insists that we focus on the materiality of language and of the 'body' of the writer, and understand that writing resists the writer as much as writers resists writing. It's a bold book that isn't afraid to complicate and upend some of the most dearly-held pieties of the field. --Michael Bernard-Donals, University of Wisconsin Rickert offers a belated dialogue between Zizek and composition studies, one that productively theorizes an ethics of writing without nostalgically bemoaning the loss of the unitary subject. --South Atlantic Review Rickert hones in incisively on the weakness of the various pedagogies that poststructuralism has spawned, especially as they have been translated into the composition classroom. Relying primarily on Slavoj Zizek's mode of neo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and his own notion of jouissance, Rickert offers a transformative corrective, one I am persuaded by at every turn, and some of which is quite delightfully unexpected. --Paul Kameen, University of Pittsburgh

A provocative book whose major contribution is, unquestionably, the lucid distillation of key psychoanalytic concepts. <i> JAC</i></p>

Acts of Enjoyment puts the work of Slavoj Zizek into dialogue with composition studies, a dialogue that's been resisted for far too long. Rickert insists that we focus on the materiality of language and of the 'body' of the writer, and understand that writing resists the writer as much as writers resists writing. It's a bold book that isn't afraid to complicate and upend some of the most dearly-held pieties of the field. <br> --Michael Bernard-Donals, University of Wisconsin

Rickert hones in incisively on the weakness of the various pedagogies that poststructuralism has spawned, especially as they have been translated into the composition classroom. Relying primarily on Slavoj Zizek's mode of neo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and his own notion of jouissance, Rickert offers a transformative corrective, one I am persuaded by at every turn, and some of which is quite delightfully unexpected. <br>--Paul Kameen, University of Pittsburgh

<p> Rickert offers a belated dialogue between Zizek and composition studies, one that productively theorizes an ethics of writing without nostalgically bemoaning the loss of the unitary subject. <br> --South Atlantic Review

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Thomas Rickert is assistant professor of English at Purdue University.

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