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| About the Authors | xiii |
| Acknowledgments | xiv |
| Introduction Priscilla Roth | xvii |
| Chapter 1 Maggie and Dorothea: Reparation and Working Through in George Eliot’s Novels | 1 |
| Chapter 2 Non Vixit: A Ghost Story | 24 |
| Chapter 3 Who’s Who? Notes on Pathological Identifications | 41 |
| Chapter 4 Death by Daydreaming: Madame Bovary | 56 |
| Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis and Literature | 73 |
| Chapter 6 Imparadised in Hell: Idealisation, Erotisation and the Return of the Split-off | 86 |
| Chapter 7 'For Ever Wilt Thou Love, and She be Fair!': On Quixotism and the Golden Age of Pre-Genital Sexuality | 105 |
| Chapter 8 Introduction to Iris Murdoch's Henry and Cato | 121 |
| Chapter 9 Certainty and Doubt: Transparency and Opacity of the Object | 132 |
| Chapter 10 Florence and Sigmund's Excellent Adventure: On Oedipus and Us | 146 |
| Chapter 11 The Wound, the Bow and the Shadow of the Object: Notes on Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia' | 161 |
| Chapter 12 Where the Lights and Shadows Fall: On Not being Able to Remember and Not Being Able to Forget | 183 |
| Chapter 13 'Even Now, Now, Very Now …' : On Envy and the Hatred of Love | 200 |
| Chapter 14 The 'Perpetual Orgy': Hysterical Phantasies, Bisexuality and the Question of Bad Faith | 216 |
| Chapter 15 Addiction to Near-Life: On Pathological Daydreaming and the Disturbing Ambiguity of Faking True-Love | 232 |
| References | 253 |