Imaginary existences [electronic resource] : a psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams / Ignes Sodre ; edited and with an introduction by Priscilla Roth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Maggie and Dorothea : reparation and working through in George Eliot's novels -- 2. Non vixit : a ghost story -- 3. Who's who? Notes on pathological identifications -- 4. Death by daydreaming : Madame Bovary -- 5. Psychoanalysis and literature -- 6. Imparadised in hell : idealisation, erotisation and the return of the split-off -- 7. 'For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!' : on quixotism and the golden age of pre-genital sexuality -- 8. Introduction to Iris Murdoch's Henry and Cato -- 9. Certainty and doubt : transparency and opacity of the object -- 10. Florence and Sigmund's excellent adventure : on Oedipus and us -- 11. The wound, the bow and the shadow of the object : notes on Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- 12. Where the lights and shadows fall : on not being able to remember and not being able to forget -- 13. 'Even now, now, very now ...' : on envy and the hatred of love -- 14. The 'perpetual orgy' : hysterical phantasies, bisexuality and the question of bad faith -- 15. Addiction to near-life : on pathological daydreaming and the disturbing ambiguity of faking true-love.