Psychology through literature, an anthology

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The physical heritage. Somerset Maugham / from Of human bondage ; William Shakespeare / from King Henry the Sixth ; from King RIchard the Third ; William Saroyan / And man ; Thomas Wolfe / from Look homeward, Angel

The influence of the family. Samuel Butler / from The way of all flesh ; André Lichtenberger / from Trott and his little sister ; Marcel Proust / from Swann's way ; Virginia Woolf / from To the lighthouse ; Louis Bromfield / from A good woman

Social and economic pressures. Virginia Woolf / The new dress ; Theodore Dreiser / from An American tragedy ; Vincent Sheean / from Personal history ; Sally Benson / Wife of the hero ; William Faulkner / Dry September ; Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe ; Floyd Dell / from Homecoming

^ Emotional conflicts. William Shakespeare / from Othello ; Thomas Hardy / from The return of the native ; Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe ; James T. Farrell / Helen, I love you ; Leonid Andreyev / from The seven that were hanged ; William Ellery Leonard / from The locomotive-God ; Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe ; Richard Wright / from Native son ; Stephen Crane / from The red badge of courage ; Leo Tolstoy / from War and peace

The learning process. Marcel Proust / from Swann's way ; Richard Aldington / from Death of a hero ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau / from Confessions ; Aldous Huxley / from Brave new world

Dreams and the unconscious. Millen Brand / from The outward room ; Robert Louis Stevenson / A chapter on dreams ; Conrad Aiken / from Blue voyage ; James Joyce / from Ulysses ; Thomas De Quincey / from Confessions of an English opium-eater ; Marcel Proust / from The Guermantes way ; Sean O'Casey / from I knock at the door

^ The neuroses. Gustave Flaubert / from Madame Bovary ; D.H. Lawrence / from Sons and lovers ; Guy de Maupassant / from Pierre and Jean ; Cotton Mather / from Diary ; William Shakespeare / from Macbeth ; from Richard the Second ; Romain Rolland / from Jean-Christophe ; Robert Browning / Pictor Ignotus ; Somerset Maugham / from The moon and sixpence

The psychoses. Willa Cather / Paul's case ; Clifford Beers / from A mind that found itself ; Robert Browning / Porphyria's lover ; José Garcia Villa / The son of Rizal ; Fyodor Dostoyevsky / from The brothers Karamazov