ABSTRACT
All of the trials the author have discussed in this book present themselves as a choice between two forms of fantasy, one is the form of fantasy that is coded as isolating the subject from the truth, the fantasy that intoxicates the subject with the enjoyment of untruth and death; the other form of fantasy is the shared fantasy of truth that facilitates the beginning and maintenance of a shared identity between subjects. But like the critics and lawyers who must necessarily repress certain aspects of the text in order to produce its truth, this text, too, is implicated in that procedure. The literary text both refuses to accede to the law’s demands for truth but also, through this silence, is spoken for and made to work in the name of multiple different forms of power.
