Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Relationship of Psychopathology to the Arts xv
Part I Variations on a Theme of Shame 1
1 Shame, the "As-if" Personality, and the Search for Identity 3
2 Anton Chekhov's "The Darling": Imitative Pseudo-Relationships 7
3 Woody Allen's Zelig: The Human Chameleon 14
4 Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley: Better a Fake Somebody than a Real Nobody 16
5 Reinvented Selves: Frank Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can and James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 20
6 Henry David Thoreau's Alter Egos: Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Thoreau, Jr. 24
7 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Underground Man and the Psychogenesis of Stalking 29
8 The Case of the Quadriplegic Cyberstalker 34
9 The Unabomber at Harvard: A Murderous Phoenix 39
10 The Unabomber, the Underground Man, and Asperger Syndrome 44
11 Chekhov's "The Man in a Case": Laughter that Killed 48
12 Glenn Gould: The "Cased-in Man" Syndrome 53
13 Homophobic Dysphoria in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain 60
14 A Shame-Inducing Epiphany in James Joyce's "The Dead" 64
15 Chekhov's "Lady with the Pet Dog": A Womanizer Learns to Love 70
16 Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: Inner and Outer Courts of Inquiry 74
17 Edward Hopper's Last Painting, Two Comedians: An Ego-Absolving Gloss 78
18 Alexander Pushkin's "The Shot": Revenge, a Dish Best Savored Cold 81
Part II Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 85
19 Introduction: The Many Facets of PTSD 87
20 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield": Sleepwalker in a Mental Jail 89
21 Frederick Law Olmsted's Childhood Traumas and the Birth of Psychoarchitecture 97
22 Leo Tolstoy's "God Sees the Truth, but Waits": Through Suffering Comes Redemption 102
23 Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers: A Real-life Ivan and Makar 106
24 Henry David Thoreau's "Wilderness Therapy": Sensory Awareness in Nature 112
25 The Great Deeds of Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Crisis, Preparation, and a Deliberative Moment 119
Part III Hallucinations and Illusions 129
26 Introduction: The Creative Use of Alternate States of Consciousness 131
27 Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Autoscopic Illusion 132
28 Friedrich August Kekulé's Apparition of a Snake and the Structure of the Benzene Ring 136
29 Henry David Thoreau: An Imaginary Mountain, A Symbolic Tombstone 141
30 Demonic Hallucinations and Patricidal Guilt: Dostoyevsky's Ivan Karamazov and Freud's Bavarian Artist 145
31 The Three Phantoms of Herman Melville's Moby Dick 152
Part IV Mood Imagery in Literature 163
32 Introduction: Icarus, Daedalus, and Bipolar Disorder 165
33 Manic-Depressive Mood Swings in Albert Camus' The Fall 167
34 Bipolar Imagery in Henry David Thoreau's Journal 175
Bibliography 189
Index 195
