| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Pt. 1 | The Hysterical Subject of Theory | 1 |
| Introduction: Navel Inversions | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Navel of Sigmund Freud's Inaugural Dream | 53 |
| Pt. 2 | History's Hysterias | 99 |
| Ch. 2 | Medicine's Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend? | 101 |
| Ch. 3 | Gothic Hysterics: Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest | 139 |
| Ch. 4 | Jean-Martin Charcot's Vampires | 174 |
| Pt. 3 | Hysteria's Case Histories | 241 |
| Ch. 5 | Turnings of Nostalgia: Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Pierre Janet | 243 |
| Ch. 6 | Anne Sexton's Business of Writing Suicide | 290 |
| Ch. 7 | "You Freud, Me Jane": Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, the Case History Revisited | 332 |
| Pt. 4 | Performing Hysteria | 379 |
| Ch. 8 | A Womb of One's Own, or the Strange Case of David Cronenberg | 381 |
| Ch. 9 | Beyond Hysteria: Cindy Sherman's Private Theater of Horror | 409 |
| Notes | 433 |
| Bibliography | 451 |
| Index | 467 |
