Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction -- PART ONE The Neurological Subordination of Sexuality -- Introduction: The "New Maps" of Causality -- ONE Cerebral Auto-Affection -- TWO Brain Wounds: From the Neurological Novel to the Theater of Absence -- THREE Identity Without Precedent -- FOUR Psychoanalytic Objection: Can There Be Destruction Without a Drive of Destruction? -- PART TWO The Neutralization of Cerebrality -- Introduction: Freud and Preexisting Fault Lines -- FIVE What Is a Psychic Event? -- SIX The "Libido Theory" and the Otherness of the Sexual to Itself: Traumatic Neurosis and War Neurosis in Question -- SEVEN Separation, Death, the Thing, Freud, Lacan, and the Missed Encounter -- EIGHT Neurological Objection: Rehabilitating the Event -- PART THREE On the Beyond of the Pleasure Principle-That It Exists -- Introduction: Remission at the Risk of Forgetting the Worst -- NINE The Equivocity of Reparation: From Elasticity to Resilience -- TEN Toward a Plasticity of the Compulsion to Repeat -- ELEVEN The Subject of the Accident -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.