CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. 1. Psychoanalysis—A Counterdepressant 1
4. 2. Life and Death of Speech 25
5. 3. Illustrations of Feminine Depression 54
6. 4. Beauty: The Depressive’s Other Realm 73
7. 5. Holbein’s Dead Christ 79
8. 6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet 106
9. 7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness 132
10. 8. The Malady of Grief: Duras 168
11. Notes 201
12. Index 225