Introduction / Philip Rieff -- Psychoanalysis and the unconscious -- 1. Psychoanalysis v. morality -- 2. The incest motive and idealism -- 3. The birth of consciousness -- 4. The child and his mother -- 5. The lover and the beloved -- 6. Human relations and the unconscious -- Fantasia of the unconscious -- Foreword -- Introduction -- holy family -- 3. Plexuses, planes, and so on -- 4. Trees and babies and papas and mamas -- five senses -- First glimmerings of mind -- 7. First steps in education -- 8. Education and sex in man, woman, and child -- 9. The birth of sex -- 10. Parent love -- 11. The vicious circle -- 12. Litany of exhortations -- 13. Cosmological -- 14. Sleep and dreams -- 15. The lower self -- Epilogue