Introduction
The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited
A Tempest in a Test Tube: The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
An Ethics of Failure: Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves
Your Children: Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars
Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Conclusion.