Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One. Wisdom Won From Illness 11
5. Chapter Two. Integrating The Nonrational Soul 30
6. Chapter Three. What Is A Crisis Of Intelligibility? 50
7. Chapter Four. A Lost Conception Of Irony 63
8. Chapter Five. Waiting For The Barbarians 80
9. Chapter Six. The Ironic Creativity Of Socratic Doubt 103
10. Chapter Seven. Rosalind’S Pregnancy 120
11. Chapter Eight. Technique And Final Cause In Psychoanalysis 138
12. Chapter Nine. Jumping From The Couch 159
13. Chapter Ten. Eros And Development 175
14. Chapter Eleven. Mourning And Moral Psychology 191
15. Chapter Twelve. Allegory And Myth In Plato’S Republic 206
16. Chapter Thirteen. The Psychic Efficacy Of Plato’S Cave 227
17. Chapter Fourteen. The Ethical Thought Of J. M. Coetzee 244
18. Chapter Fifteen. Not At Home In Gilead 269
19. Notes 287
20. Acknowledgments 317
21. Index 321