CONTENTS

List of Illustrations xiii
A Note on Sources xv
Abbreviated Titles xvii

Preface 1

PART ONE: SIGMUND THE UNREADY
1: Between Identities 9
2: Getting By 24
3: Forsaking All Others 39

PART TWO: THE FIRST TEMPTATION
4: White Magic 57
5: A Friend in Need 74
6: The Wrong Discoverer 91
7: Expert Judgments 109
8: The Survivor 127
9: Exit, Pursued 140

PART THREE: BLIND SUBMISSION
10: A French Connection 157
11: The Travesty 172 12: Attachment Therapy 189
13: In Dubious Battle 212

PART FOUR: PLAYING DOCTOR
14: Medicine Man 239
15: Tending to Goldfish 258
16: Lessons Taken and Applied 275
17: Traumas on Demand 293

PART FIVE: HIS TURN TO SHINE
18: Now or Never 319
19: The Founding Deception 339
20: Adjusting the Record 361
21: Narrative Truth 380
22: Arraying the Neuroses 398

PART SIX: OFF THE DEEP END
23: The Secret Sharer 415
24: The Freudian Neuron 435
25: Diminished Capacity 452
26: Dire Therapy 466
27: Self-Seduced 486
28: The Breakthrough That Wasn't 506
29: The Labyrinth of Reproaches 519

PART SEVEN: LITTLE BIG MAN
30: Wishing Makes It So 543
31: Sexual Healing 563
32: The Unborn Avenger 578
33: Girl Trouble 590
34: A Law unto Himself 617
35: Imposing His Will 641

Appendix: Are We Being Freudian Yet? 661

Notes 667
Works Cited 709
Acknowledgments 731
Index 733