Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1
4. Part I. PERSPECTIVES ON SOUL MURDER
5. CHAPTER 2. Fatal Gifts 19
6. CHAPTER 3. The Smell of Semen 47
7. CHAPTER 4. Once Is Never (Or Once Doesn't Count) 65
8. CHAPTER 5. The Ring of the Narcissist 77
9. CHAPTER 6. Child Abuse and the Concentration Camp 97
10. Part II. THE BACKGROUND OF SOUL MURDER
11. CHAPTER 7. "That Fixed Obsession Which Is a State of Love": Where Proust and Freud Can Be Both Wise and Wrong 113
12. CHAPTER 8. Comments on Freud's "A Child Is Being Beaten" 137
13. Part III. LITERARY EXAMPLES
14. CHAPTER 9. Algernon Swinburne: A Child Who Wanted to Be Beaten 167
15. CHAPTER 10. The Moth and the Mother: Elizabeth Bishop 207
16. Part IV. "DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?"
17. CHAPTER 11. Narcissistic Pathology Stemming from Parental Weakness 245
18. CHAPTER 12. Murder, Violence, and Soul Murder: "Did It Really Happen?" and a Note on Therapy 257
19. APPENDIX 287
20. References 303
21. Acknowledgments 313
22. Permissions 314
23. Index 315