Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
2. On Character
3. Characterization in Antigone and Othello
4. Grandiosity and the Romantic Sublime
5. Object-Relations Theory: Otto Kernberg
6. Object-Relations Theory: Heinz Kohut
7. Object-Relations Theory: Alice Miller
8. Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities: Setting
9. The Man without Qualities: An Inter"personal" Reading
10. The Man without Qualities: Friendship and Persistent Envy
11.The Man without Qualities: Idealization and Repression
12. The Man without Qualities: Eroticism and Critical Detachment
13. The Man without Qualities: An Early "Borderline Character"
14. The Man without Qualities: Sibling Mirroring
15. Borderlinity and Contemporary Culture: The Silence of the Lambs
16. Conclusion
Notes
Index