The book studies the novel character Hannibal Lecter. This study is intended for students and film, literature, and low-culture enthusiasts who wish to better understand the relationship between the Individual Subject and the other Big state using Lecter's imagery. as a prism through which people see themselves and their appearance. The study looked at:
Subjects construct fantasies related to their place in society.
- Psychiatrist Lecter is a paradox; he is at the same timeless extreme and more extreme than the ordinary psychoanalyst.
Lecter's continued influence on popular culture.
- Further hypothesizes about the dangers of externalizing our fantasies through two full appendices, examining Eraserhead and the classic movie monsters.