Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pathos of Distance -- Mimetic Patho(-)logies -- Ancient Quarrels, Modern Reconciliations -- The Mimetic Unconscious -- Diagnostic Program -- Chapter 1. Nietzsche's Mimetic Patho(-)logy: From Antiquity to Modernity -- The Phantom -- The Logos of Sympathy -- Beyond the Rivalry Principle -- Nietzsche's Platonism -- Psycho-Physiology of the Modern Soul -- Prophet of Nazism? -- Chapter 2. Conrad and the Horror of Modernity -- Apocalypse Now in the Classroom -- An Outpost of Regress -- Heart of Darkness and the Horror of Mimesis -- Chapter 3. D. H. Lawrence and the Dissolution of the Ego -- Ghostly Reappearances -- Primitivist Participation -- The Birth of the Ideal Ego -- Mass Patho(-)logy Reloaded -- Lawrence contra Freud -- Chapter 4. Bataille's Mimetic Communication -- Phantom Matador -- Enlightening Fascist Psychology -- Anthropological Effervescence -- The Freudian Triangle -- Sovereign Communication, Unconscious Imitation -- The Psychology of the Future -- Coda. Mimetic Theory Revisited -- Modernism and Mimetic Theory -- The Laughter of Community -- The Center Does Not Hold -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.