Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Cutting out gingerbread people -- The organisation of mourning -- Psychoanalysis as the theory of disappointment -- Looking on the bright side -- The organisation of social life -- The fragmentation of everyday life -- The powerful self and its illusions -- The disappointments of identity: what sort of man? -- The false self of late modernity -- The disappointed self -- The values of psychoanalysis -- References -- Index.