This perversion called love: reading Tanizaki, feminist theory, and Freud

Long positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated twentieth-century authors at the centre of contemporary debates in feminism.

Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki's aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings, and short novels from the 1930s, she argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the possibility of love.