Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. I. A Literary Example of Haunting 1
5. II. A Clinical Illustration of Some of My Main Themes 20
6. III. Knowing, Change, and Good and Bad Expectations 28
7. IV. Beginnings and Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode” 38
8. V. Change Means Loss: Spring and Summer Must Become Winter 50
9. VI. The Myth of Demeter and Persephone 65
10. VII. Another Dream of Death in a Garden 71
11. VIII. A Clinical and a Literary Example 77
12. IX. A Second Literary Example 101
13. X. A Third Literary Example 131
14. XI. On Listening, Knowing, and Owning 177
15. XII. Gardens, Unweeded Gardens, and the Garden of Eden— Death and Transience 191
16. XIII. “The promise” and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler 197
17. XIV. What Do I Know? 221
18. Postscript: Two Relevant Quotations 232
19. Appendix: Hartmann on the Genetic Point of View and Object Constancy 235
20. References 243
21. Index 249