Introduction

1. The Erotically Charged, Horrible Hands of Orlac: A Trans Masculine Attunement

2. Salvador Dali’s Sublime Buttocks

3. Bodies without Organs in Bertrand Mandico's Cinema: Exploring Sexuality and Desire in a Post-gender World

4. The Animated Cock: Carnivals, Cannibals, and Personified White Phalluses in Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle

Part II Amputated Minds of Their Own

5. "We Are Our Brains": Disembodied Brain Films in 1950s Cold War America

6. (Dis)embodied Heads and Gender Subversion in Kurahashi Yumiko's Bizarre Little Stories

7. Off with Her Head: Renaissance Queens, Medusa, and the Threat of the Female Head

Part III

8. Philomela's Tongue

9. Threatening Memories: The Consciousness of the Disembodied Hand (350)

10. What's in an Organ? A Study of Personified Body Parts in the Grimm Brothers' Fairytale "The Three Surgeons"

Part IV

Struggle to Recover the Potential Space in Gogol's Story "The Nose"

12. Personified Body Parts as Lonely People's Pets in Gary Kilworth's "Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands"

Part V

13. The Autonomous Eye in Alfred Hitchcock's The Blind Man

14. "'Bli Ayin Ha'Ra!" (May the Evil Eye Not Affect You): The Autonomous Eye as A Personification of Evil in Judaism

15. The Eye and the Vagina as Windows of the Imagination: Pan's Labyrinth