Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Invisible Forces; Of Repetition and Invisible Forces; Whose Body?; Methodological Gestures; Summary of Chapters; Chapter 2 Stein, Beckett, Rainer, and Brown; Let's Start with Five Stories; Loving Repeating; Hiatuses, Holes, Tears; Making Things Visible; Chapter 3 After Barthes; Exposition (This and That, Now); Examples; Flirtatious Repetitions, Immense Pleasures; Another Moment  Later on; Repetition and Caresses; Performerly Repetitions; Repetition as Jouissance; Supple Theatres of Repetition; Chapter 4 After Stein

Eleven Little AuntsAnother Scene; And Another Time; Henri Bergson: A Shooting Star; Topping Hands: ; Topping Hands: Steve Reich; Is There Such a Thing as Repetition?; Chapter 5 Performance Returns; Some Thoughts on Returns; Performance Remains; Techniques of Repetition; Such Unfinished Business; What Would Freud Say About All This?; Performance Returns; Affective Difficulties of Repetition; What Is Left; Chapter 6 After Lacan; Insatiable Desires, Inadequate Satisfactions; Sisyphus Going Up the Hill; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Filling the Gaps; Put Finger In; Returning to the Image

Filling the GapsBibliography; Index