"David Seelow's substantial re-reading of Freud argues the value of fetishism as an essential part of sexual life. From that unsettling beginning, Seelow goes on to show how Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and D.H. Lawrence comprise a subversive, radical triad within modernist thought, one that he extends skillfully into the postmodern visions of Battaile and Baudrillard. His Reichian readings of Lawrence, especially of 'The Prussian Officer' and 'The Escaped Cock' ('The ManWho Died') are brilliant and original, but Seelow never loses sight of the ambiguities and uncertainties of the desire for sexual utopia that energized Reich and Lawrence. By the end, Seelow makes good on his claim to have uncovered the core value of modernism in its critical understanding of sexuality." - Arthur Efron, University at Buffalo