In her review of Kaja Silverman's The Threshold of the Visible World (1996), feminist theorist Mieke Bal observed that Silverman "is in the habit of raising questions that remain unanswered, and devoting her next book to them." Silverman's work on subjectivity and psychoanalysis is remarkably consistent, in both its authorial voice and its willingness to be led to new conclusions as it progresses. Silverman has for many years explored possibilities for alternative models of subjectivity along the axes of visual theory (primarily cinema) and gender difference; her later work has begun to inhabit a zone, as she puts it, midway "between psychoanalysis and phenomenology," becoming at once more philosophically inclusive and more intricately structured. Highly respected for the quality and clarity of her thought and writing, as well as for being as equally committed to her teaching, Silverman's work has encompassed many areas of focus, including literary criticism, semiotics...