Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Psychological Interiority versus Self-Talk 1
6. I. THE PROBLEM FOR WHICH PSYCHOLOGY FURNISHED A SOLUTION
7. 1. The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime 21
8. 2. The Revolutionary Schooling of Imagination 60
9. II. THE POLITICS OF SELFHOOD
10. 3. Is There a Self in This Mental Apparatus? 103
11. 4. An A Priori Self for the Bourgeois Male: Victor Cousin’s Project 139
12. 5. Cousinian Hegemony 182
13. 6. Religious and Secular Access to the Vie Intérieure: Renan at the Crossroads 233
14. 7. A Palpable Self for the Socially Marginal: The Phrenological Alternative 269
15. Epilogue 316
16. Notes 331
17. Note on Sources 399
18. Index 403