CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Introduction: Constructivism and the Reemergent Self 1
5. The Self and Its Vicissitudes in the Psychoanalytic Avant-Garde 17
6. The American Origins of the Postmodern Self 59
7. Two Discourses on Communication, Power, and the Subject: Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault 81
8. The Ad Man and the Grand Inquisitor: Intimacy, Publicity, and the Managed Self in America, 1880-1940 107
9. Motherhood and the Construction of the Male Citizen in the United States, 1750-1850 143
10. The Social Construction of Childhood in Contemporary Japan 165
11. Constructing "Harriet Taylor": Another Look at J. S. Mill's Autobiography 191
12. Style, Strategy, and Self-Creation in the Life of Emilia Dilke 213
13. The Self in Literature 249
14. Death of the Subject? 269
15. Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary 285
16. Contributors 299