Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- One Introduction: Paragone of the Art World -- Occupy Chelsea? -- The Commercialization of Metaphysics -- The Impossibility of Art -- Values Without a Referent -- A Swerve in Imaginary Space -- Narcissism in the Offertorium -- Two Narcissism Without Apology: Art in the Offertorium -- Narcissism -- Modernity -- The Offertorium -- Marina Abramovic -- Baldessari's Box -- Transformation: The Mother as Psychoanalytic Alibi -- The Sex of Angels, the Gender of the Eyes -- Narcissism Without Apology -- Three The Language of Narcissism: Terms and Conditions -- Psychoanalysis, Art, and Public Health -- The Terms of Narcissism -- The Conditions of Narcissism -- Four The Crack in the Golden Bowl -- The Problem of Idealizing Selection -- Idealizing Selection, Selective Idealization -- Exculpating Strategies in Modern Art -- Painting Writ Large -- Five Limits of the Diaphane: Reflections on Visuality as a Modality of the Narcissistic Drive -- The Doors of Perception -- Painter into Painting -- The Disfigured, The Unfigured, and the Unfigurable -- Images of the Offertorium -- Six Limits of the Diaphane II: More Self-Portraits of the Drive -- Emptiness -- Renaissance and Baroque -- Art (O)edible and Pre-(O)edible -- Distributions of Power in the Psychic Void -- Conventional Images of Narsensuality -- Appendix -- Seven The Dialectic of Narcissism in Art -- Introduction -- The Modernist Pole of the Dialectic -- Idealization in Modernism -- Rothko -- The Swing of the Dialectic: The Return of the Body -- Eight Applied Art: Driving Psychoanalytic Theory to Distraction -- The Concept of the Drive and the Problem of Beginning -- The Hypothesis of a Narcissistic Drive -- The Relation of the Drive to Narcissism -- The Relation of Sexuality to Narcissism.

Patriarchal Apologetics -- In Defense of Drive -- Drive as Defense -- Nine Psychophantic Relations with Art: Analytic Romanticism and the Problem of Perversion -- Introduction -- The Cunning of Psychoanalytic Aesthetics -- Evil and Ruin in Art and Psychoanalysis -- Splitting in Psychoanalytic Thought -- Perversion and Creativity -- Oedipal Metaphors - Literal, Figurative, Over- extended -- Ten Applied Art World: The Social Struggle with the Ideal -- Art World Aura -- The Psychology of the Encore -- The Pursuit of Excellence -- Eleven Stalking Horse, Gift Horse, Trojan Horse -- Works Cited -- Name Index -- Subject Index.