This volume brings together reflections by cultural critics and psychoanalysts who investigate the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis. Returning to the question of their possible connection, these nine essays become an 'excess' that prefigures a common space of thought. The experience of reading, both in literature and in psychoanalysis, sketches a silhouette of communalities in which the vitality of the "letter" weaves and provides the sustenance of resistance to the strong contemporary deterritorialization of desire. For these authors, the "letter" is not an orthopedic of life, but rather it itself travels through the complex field of drives to give meaning and feeling to the story told and added.

Although Excesses: Between Literature and Psychoanalysis addresses the ancient relationship between fantasy and writing, the privilege it gives to the "letter" facilitates the visualization of the dynamics that are debated in the common space of language. Hence, the reading experience projected on each chapter not only refers to the authors' own process of individualizing themselves in their writings, but is also offered as some other experience for the reader of the book.