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  • Preface
  • 1. Reading for the plot
  • 2. Narrative desire
  • 3. The novel and the guillotine, or fathers and sons in "Le rouge et le noir"
  • 4. Freud's masterplot: a model of narrative
  • 5. Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of "Great expectations"
  • 6. The mark of the beast: protitution, serialization, and narrative
  • 7. Retrospective lust, or Flauber's perversities
  • 8. Narrative transaction and transference
  • 9. An unreadable report: Conrad's "Hearth of darkness"
  • 10. Fiction of the wolf man: Freud and narrative understanding
  • 11. Incredulous "Absalom, Absalom!"
  • In conclusion: Endgames and the study of plot
  • Notes