CONTENTS

Preface

1 • PRELUDE
THE PATHOLOGICAL ASSUMPTION

2 • THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS

3 • NOBLE AUTOMATONS

4 • INTERLUDE
LISTENING

5 • THE TYRANNY OF MEANING

6 • THE SOFT-SPOKEN GOD

7 • ENIGMATICAL DICTATION

8 • INTERLUDE
FLOATING

9 • PERSONAL DEITY
SOCRATES VERSUS THE STATE

10 • DIGNA VOX
JOAN OF ARC VERSUS THE CHURCH

11 • MORBID OFFSPRING
DANIEL PAUL SCHREBER VERSUS PSYCHIATRY

12 • POSTLUDE
HEARING VOICES

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index