Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-355) and index.
Contents
Before 1800 : the world we lost -- To 1850 : the world we gained -- The philosophy of pleasure -- Riding for a fall -- Crisis -- The Freudians : the liberal imagination -- In the shadow of decline : Freud's miraculous years -- A climate of ideas -- Soul psychology : mind over matter -- Theory and practice : desire's vicissitudes -- The art of the symbol -- The old in the new -- Themes -- The return of God and king -- That old-time religion -- Infantilism : heroes, villains, sermons -- More heroes, villains, sermons -- The lessons of sex -- The uses of the unconscious -- Neurosis : diverting social hysteria -- Wishes, dreams, repression, regression -- The triumph of suggestion -- The camouflage of authority -- The politics of concealment -- Reasons of state.