(Abridged)

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. THE WAY TO HIROSHIMA

I. Only Connect: Trauma in/and History
II. The Concept of Crisis and a Hermeneutics of Engagement
III. Only Connect: Why Hiroshima?
IV. On Psychoanalytic Method: No "Return to Freud"
V. Engaging the Audience: Agonistic Intersubjectivity
VI. Only Connect: Immanence--The Existentializing Process

2. CUTTING BACK INTO LIFE

I. History as Hermeneutic of Engagement
II. Internalization and Bad Faith: The Disorder Called the Ego
III. Authentic Internalization: The Birth of Psyche
IV. Internalization and History
V. Language, Discourse (-Communities), the Problem of Style
VI. Horror, as Exemplar
VII. A Modest Proposal

3. THE SUBLIME AND THE KANTIAN RATIO, OR, HOW THE WHITE MAN THINKS

THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY AT ISSUE

I. Affect and Attunement
II. Deracination as Concrete Deconstruction

READING AS INTERROGATIN-KANT'S CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT, SECTIONS 23-29

I. Beyond the Beautiful: From Pleasure to Desire
II. Frameworks: Opposed
III. Purposiveness: And the Contrapurpose
IV. Affect and Attunement in Depth: Inwardness versus the Ratio
V. From Ambivalence toward the Object to Intimations of the Bomb
VI. The Psyche in/and History
VII. The Scientific Imagination: Kant as Romantic Poet
VIII. Reason and the Bomb
IX. The Imagination's Re-education: Reason as Sublime Self-Reference
X. The Dynamic Sublime and the Inner World
XI. Sublimity and Theology: The Superego ... and the Bomb
XII. Coda: Crypt

4. THE PSYCHE THAT DROPPED THE BOMB

OVERTURE: THE EGO AND ITS PLEASURE

THE EGO'S CRYPT: THE INNER STRUCTURE OF AN ANTI-DIALECTIC

I. The Psyche's Founding Condition
II. The Manic Defense against Depression
III. The Fractured Mirror and the Psychotic Core
IV. Soul-Murder Perfected: Death-Work as Self-Reference
V. The Law of the Son
VI. Intersubjectivity: "Concrete Relations with Others" as Mutual Deadening
VII. The Trauma Is the Real: The Postmodern Condition Attained
VIII. Epiphany: The Eroticization of Thanatos

THANATOS AS SPIRIT IN AND FOR ITSELF

I. Rethinking Freud: Concrete versus Abstract Dialectics
II. Humanizing Thanatos: A Phenomenological Description
III. Death-Work versus the Death-Drive
IV. Experience and Existence
V. A New Theory of the Unconcious
VI. The Dialectic at the Core: The System UCS Redefined
VII. The Last Word: Thanatos in Reply

5. FROM ENTHUSIASM TO MELANCHOLIA AS SIGN OF HISTORY: OR, REFLECTION FROM KANT TO HAMLET

THE HISTORICAL VALIDITY OF AESTHETIC CATEGORIES

I. Poetic Thinking as Ontological Regression
II. Kant's Theory of History: Enthusiasm, Progress, and the Sensus Communis

HISTORY AND "VIGOROUS MELANCHOLY"

I. Aesthetic Reeducation
II. The Tragic Register
III. The Aufhebung of Anxiety
IV. The Aufhebung of Thinking
V. Melancholia and the Tragic Historian

HAMLET, THE CONTEMPORARY OF THE FUTURE

I. First Soliloquy: Toward Subject as Who/Why
II. Second Soliloquy: The Life of Questioning--Reflection as Interrogation and Self-Mediation
III. Third Soliloquy: Thinking as the Cutting Edge of Passion
IV. Fourth Soliloquy: Thinking as the Movement from Mind to Psyche
V. Fifth Solilquy: Melancholia versus Catharsis

6. THOSE IMAGES THAT YET FRESH IMAGES BEGET

TOWARD A THEORY OF THE DIALECTICAL IMAGE

I. Images as Sctivity
II. Image as Affect
III. Image as Perception
IV. Image as Psyche
V. Image as Memory
VI. Image as Creative Regression
VII. Image as Reality

TOWARD THE CRYPT: THE IMAGE AND INWARDNESS

I. Affect as Agon
II. The Inner World of the Image: Reconstructing the Regressive-Progressive Method

"WHAT HURTS" THE DIALECTICAL IMAGE IN HISTORY

I. Art: Between Psychosis and Neurosis/Normalcy

DIALECTIC OF THE CONCRETE--THE THANATOPTIC IMAGE AND THE CRYPT IMAGE

I. At the Origin: Death-Work and the Existential Unconscious
II. The Origins as Historicity
III. The Heart of the Image: The Psychotic Register Laid Bare
IV. Affect: Its Primacy and Its Dialectic
V. The Nuclear Unconscious: The Temporality of the Dialectical Image
VI. The Motive for Art

APPENDIX A. Twelve Theses on the Philosophy of History
APPENDIX B. Toward Concrete Dialectics: History, Psychology, Aesthetic Ontology

Notes
Index