Doreen Fowler"s Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed is only the second book-length pychoanalytic interpretation of Faulkner"s oeuvre and the first to be predicated on Lacanian theory as modified by Kristeva and Chodorow. Fowler exposes psychic conflicts that drive Faulkner"s fiction and posits from them an underlying tension between the desire for difference and wholeness, between the mother and the father, between the living body and death.