Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Before Freud : the quarrel of the unconscious in late nineteenth-century France -- Flaubert : hysterical duality, hallucination and writing -- Maupassant, Charcot and the paranormal -- The unconscious female/the female unconscious -- Hypnotism, dual personalities and the popular novel -- Proust, the intellect and the unconscious -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
