Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Oedipal Shame and the Origins of Appearance Anxiety
Appearance Anxiety as a Cultural Phenomenon
Appearance Anxiety, Observation, and Perception
Seeing, Knowing, Image, and Appearance
Oedipus, Shame, and the Void of Avoidance
1. The Contempt of the Queen's Dwarf
Psychic Size and Self-Regard
Asclepius, the Tall Man, and Little People
Brobdingnag and Lilliput
Large or Small We Are Only By Comparison
Literary Littleness and Miniaturization
Amplification and Defenses Against Diminishment
Size Symbolism and Fantasized Measurement
Size Anxiety and Oedipal Shame: Clinical Variants
The Shape of Experience and Fantasies of Size
2. Fantasy, Anguish, and Misconstrual
Pirandello and The Unrecognizable
Shame and Oedipal Defeat in the Analysis of Sam
The Heartbreaking Curiosity of the Blind
3. A Hole in a Paper Sky: Deceit and Remedies by Still More Deceit
Shame and Aidos
Shame and the Sneeze: The Analysis of Mark
Deception, Outrage, and Remedy by Even More Deceit
The Vain Invention of the Onlooker
4. What Do You See Me to Be? Invisibility and Performance
Exposure and Invisibility: Adam
Spy Glass Hill and the "Rage of Personality:" Adam, Graham Greene, and Kim Philby
Oedipal Shame, Spies and Fantasy
Recognizing Choice in the Unseen
Of Oedipal Blindness and Oedipal Shame: Loss, Disappearance, and Rage
The Hunger Artist
Shame and Performance Anxiety: A Shamed Violinist Plays to a Lion
Shame and Creativity
5. I Can't See; I'm Invisible
When I Don't See You I Can Invent You Better: The Anaylsis of Susan
Do You Want Me To Be Someone Else?
Peek-a-boo, Disappearance, and the Game of the Bobbin
I Am Invisible; I Can't See Myself
Seeing, Being Seen, and Matters of Privacy
6. What the Camera Sees: The Tragedy of Modern Heroes and "The Rules of the Game"
Free Association and Open Form
Of Disguises, Mechanisms, and Music Boxes
Everyone Has His Reasons
Deceit, Denial, Honor, and the Rules of the Game
7. Satan, Shame, and the Fragility of the Self
Sin's Out and Out's Sin
Shame and Sin: The Garden of Eden
Shame and Innocence
Kierkegaard, Dread, and the Self So Easily Lost
Shame, Deception, and Despair
He Who Sheds Shame Sheds Himself
8. Narcissus and Lady Godiva: Lethal Looks and Oedipal Shame
Looking, Narcissus, and Narcissism
Freud, Looking, and Psychoanalytic Theories of Narcissism
Narcissistic Pain, Looking, and Mirrors
Looking and Dreams: Freud's Self-Portrait
Dreams of Two Patients: A Painter and a Stripper
Looking and the Transference
9. Of Fig Leaves, Real and Imagined
Fashioning Looks, Shaping Shame
Freud and Exhibitionism
How Conscious is Fashion-consciousness?
Plastic Surgery and Con-Formity
Clothe the Naked
10. These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: Trauma, Mourning, and Oedipal Shame
Regression, Shame, and Trauma: Ferenczi and Freud
Uncontrollable Ears and the Social-Political Context of Oedipal Shame
Appearance and Connivances
A Burdenous Drone: Samson Agonistes
Shame, Disappearance, and Trauma
And a Tear Shall Lead the Blind Man
Notes
References
Index