Contents -- Preface -- ONE: A Literary Example of Haunting: Dr. Benjamin Spock -- TWO: A Clinical Illustration of Some of My Main Themes -- THREE: Knowing, Change, and Good and Bad Expectations -- FOUR: Beginnings and Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode" -- FIVE: Change Means Loss: Spring and Summer Must Become Winter -- SIX: The Myth of Demeter and Persephone -- Seven: Another Dream of Deathin a Garden -- Eight: A Clinical and a Literary Example-Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Nine: A Second Literary Example-Leonard Woolf -- Ten: A Third Literary Example-Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov -- Eleven: On Listening, Knowing, and Owning -- Twelve: Gardens, Unweeded Gardens, and the Garden of Eden-Death and Transience -- Thirteen: "the promise" and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler -- Fourteen: What Do I Know? -- Postscript: Two Relevant Quotations -- Index.