Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-248) and index.
Contents:
A literary example of haunting : Dr. Benjamin Spock -- A clinical illustration of some of my main themes -- Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations -- Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode" -- Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter -- The myth of Demeter and Persephone -- Another dream of death in a garden -- A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A second literary example : Leonard Woolf -- A third literary example : Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov -- On listening, knowing, and owning -- Gardens, unweeded gardens, and the garden of Eden : death and transience -- "The promise" and Ibsen's A doll's house and Hedda Gabler -- What do I know?
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