speak, 10, 39, 43, 63, 69, 86, 90, 93, 142–145, 147n5, 149n15

speaking, xii–xiii, 68, 88, 104–108, 139, 153

unspeakable, 145

statement, 8, 28, 33, 53, 56, 73, 80, 101, 106, 124–125, 150–153

constative statement, xv, 29

performative statement, 29

undecidable statement, 26–27

stake, 29, 136, 139–140

vampire, 147n3

Stranger than Fiction, 121–126

terror, 55–56, 77n10, 78n12, 81n46

terrorism, 55

Thébaud Jean-Loup, 47n25

The Tempest, 81n45

theory, 2, 5, 41–42, 57, 63, 86, 119n53, 144

theorize, 2

third, xvii, 5–6, 10, 23, 33–34, 43–44, 55–56, 67, 71, 76, 107, 114

trope, 27–28, 30, 47n20, 69, 146

veil, 4, 61, 136–137, 141

unveil, 3–4, 27, 72, 133, 136–137, 139, 141–142

virginal reading, 2–3

violence, 38, 55–56, 62, 69–70, 81n46

von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, 52–53

masochism, 49n50, 53–55, 63–64

Severin, 53, 59–64, 79n20

Venus in Furs, 77n1–6, 78n17, 79n20

Wanda von Dunajew, 51–53, 59–64, 79n20

vow, 39, 75

avow, 107, 137, 140

disavow, 104, 110

Weber, Samuel, 79n32, 149n16

write, xv, 10–11, 110–114, 115n3, 117n46, 125, 139–140, 142–143

unwritten, 108

writer, 10, 95, 102, 104, 109, 122, 135

writerly, 111

written, 28, 40, 86–87, 109, 115n3

Žižek, Slavoj, 33–34, 37, 48n32, 78n13, 98n17

“A plea for Leninist Intolerance”, 79n33, 81n40

“Smashing the Neighbour's Face”, 47nn26–31, 48n41

The Ticklish Subject, 46n7, 80n35