Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 On Both Sides of the Looking-Glass -- 2 The Real Groucho -- 3 "I" Is Another -- 4 Wanting to Be Another -- 5 Being John Malkovich. Or Michael Douglas. Or Richard Gere. Or Bill Pullman. Or Someone Younger, Maybe Someone of the Other Sex/Gender -- 6 Stunt Doubles, Stand-Ins, Spectators. And the Doctors -- 7 The Doctors (Continued)-and Those Who Need to See Them -- 8 "The Big Show Is Going on in My Head" -- 9 "It's All in Your Head" -- 10 Introductory Remarks on the Mind's "Chambers -- 11 Wanting to Be Cary Grant -- 12 Wanting to Be: …… (Insert Name) -- 13 Who'd You Actually Identify with? -- 14 Why "Desire"? -- 15 Allo- or Xeno-Experiences -- 16 The Yearning for a Happy End -- 17 Receivers and Senders -- 18 The Likeliness of an Unhappy End -- 19 Films' Dream Work -- 20 Dispositive. Apparatus. Instrumentality -- 21 Activating the Mind's Potential -- 22 Multiple Identifications -- 23 Faking Reality -- 24 The Confines of Reality, Storytelling, and the Force Majeur of Temporality -- 25 Attempting to Change Minds -- 26 What to Do about Erroneous Perception? -- 27 What Could Be, What Could Have Been -- 28 Corrective Action -- 29 Identity with Oneself? -- 30 Come on in, Take Part in My Fiction -- 31 Precision and Persuasion -- 32 There Are Alternatives -- 33 Complexity -- 34 Uncertainty and Indecision -- 35 Particularities of Identification -- 36 Identity or Identification? -- 37 The Business of Comparing -- 38 Using the Escape Hatch -- 39 Getaways and Great Escapes -- 40 Identification versus Identity and the Susceptibility of Schizophreniform Conduct -- 41 Plurality and Its Menus -- 42 The Axes of Identification -- 43 Perspectives, Prises de Vue, Position, Perception -- 44 Limits of Identification -- 45 The "Omnivoyeuristic World" -- 46 A Mind Bridge -- 47 Inject and Evacuate.

48 Mobilizers, Enablers, Utensils and Other Wherewithals -- 49 On Some Specific Motivating Forces of Identification -- 50 Typologies of Identification -- 51 What if… -- 52 Einfühlung and Nachvollzug -- 53 A Matter of Untranslatability -- 54 "Evacuation" and Narcissism -- 55 Eros and Thanatos. And the Lives of Others -- 56 On Some More Special Inducements to Identification -- 57 Commonalities and Discrepancies -- 58 And My Personal Movie? -- References and Notes -- Index.