Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Dick Howard -- Introduction -- Chapter One Self-Creation and Autonomy -- 1 Autonomy and Heteronomy -- 2 The Other Self -- 3 Beyond the Closed World: The Autonomous Subject and its Others -- Chapter Two Creation, Society and the Imaginary -- 1 The Impossibility of Creation and the Logic-Ontology of Determinacy -- 2 The Failure of Traditional Accounts of Society and History -- 3 The mIaginary -- Chapter Three Self and World -- 1 The eSlf -- 2 The World of the Self -- 3 Representation and its Other -- Chapter Four The Living Body -- 1 The Life of the Body -- 2 Self-Creation -- 3 Many in One: Types of Psyche and Levels of Self -- Chapter Five The Human Psyche -- 1 Peculiarities of the Human Psyche -- 2 The Representational World of the Human Psyche -- 3 Representational Pleasure and Sublimation -- Chapter Six The Whole World and More: The Meaning of the Monadic Psyche and its Fate -- 1 The Community of Selfs and the Compulsion to Respond -- 2 The Myth of the Monad -- 3 The Impossible Object of Desire -- Chapter Seven Magmas -- 1 Being as Magma -- 2 The Mode of Being of Magmas -- 3 Magmas and Ensembles -- Chapter Eight Determination and the Logic of Indeterminate Being -- 1 Ensemblisation and the Ensidic -- 2 The Ensidic and the History of Creation -- Chapter Nine Indeterminacy and Interpretation -- 1 The Measure of Things -- 2 Determination Beyond Limits -- Chapter Ten Autonomy and Meaning -- 1 Autonomy, Heteronomy and the Signifi cance of Greece -- 2 Religion, Meaning and the Abyss -- 3 Meaning and Truth -- Conclusion -- The Legacy of Castoriadis -- The Journey, and What We Have Made of It -- Bibliography -- Index.