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I love a good ghost story."Taking such reading-effects into consideration, we shall here undertake a reading of the text which will at the same time be articulated with a reading of its readings. This two-level reading - which also must return upon itself... What is the nature of a reading-effect as such? and by extension: what is reading? What does the text have to say about its own reading?" (102)"sexuality is rhetoric, since it essentially consists of ambiguity: it is the coexistence of dynamically antagonistic meanings.

Felman writes about Freudian interpretations of “The Turn of the Screw” in this article. While Felman centers “The Turn of the Screw” in her discussion, ultimately she engages in broader questions about Freudian and psychoanalytic reading. What does it mean to do a Freudian reading of literature? What constitutes “Freudian” and what value does it present?

“Indeed if the artistic value of such an experiment be measured by the intellectual echoes it may again, long after, set in motion, the case would make in favour of this little firm fantasy-which I seem to see draw behind it today a train of associations.