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(1) The Amnesic Self: Why the Self Wants to Get Rid of Itself
(2) The Self as Nought: How the Self Tries to Inform Itself by Possessing Things which do not Look like the Things They’re Used as
The Self as Nought (II): Why Most Women, and Some Men, are Subject to Fashion
(3)The Nowhere Self: How the Self, Which Usually Experiences Itself as Living Nowhere, is Surprised to Find that it Lives Somewhere
(4)The Fearful Self: Why the Self is so Afraid of Being Found Out
(5) The Fearful Self (II): Why the Self is so Afraid of Being Stuck with Another Self
(6) The Fearful Self (III): How the Self Tries to Escape its Predicament
(7) The Misplaced Self: How Two Selves Confronting Each Other can Miscalculate, Each Attributing a Putative and Spurious Reality to the Other and Trying to Match it, with the Consequence that Both Selves Become Non-selves
(8) The Promiscuous Self: Why is it that One’s Self often not only does not Prefer Sex with one’s Chosen Mate, Chosen for His or Her Attractiveness and Suitability, even when the Mate is a Person well known to one, knowing of one, loved by one, with a Life, Time, and Family in common, but rather prefers Sex with a New Person, even a Total Stranger, or even Vicariously through Pornography
(9) The Envious Self: (in the root sense of envy: invidere, to look at with malice): Why it is that the Self — though it Professes to be Loving, Caring, to Prefer Peace to War, Concord to Discord, Life to Death; to Wish Other Selves Well, not Ill — in fact Secretly Relishes Wars and Rumors of War, News of Plane Crashes, Assassinations, Mass Murders, Obituaries, to say nothing of Local News about Acquaintances Dropping Dead in the Street, Gossip about Neighbors Getting in Fights or being Detected in Sexual Scandals, Embezzlements, and other Disgraces
(10) The Bored Self: Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored
(11) The Depressed Self: Whether the Self is Depressed because there is Something Wrong with it or whether Depression is a Normal Response to a Deranged World
(12) The Impoverished Self: How the Self can be Poor though Rich
(13) The Transcending Self: How the Self Characteristically Places itself vis-à-vis the World, particularly through modes of Transcendence and Immanence
(14) The Orbiting Self: Reentry Problems of the Transcending Self, or Why it is that Artists and Writers, Some Technologists, and indeed Most People have so much Trouble Living in the Ordinary World
(15) The Exempted Self: How Scientists Don’t Have to Take Account of Themselves and Other Selves in their Science and Some Difficulties that Arise when they have to
(16) The Lonely Self: Why the Autonomous Self feels so Alone in the Cosmos that it will go to any Length to talk to Chimpanzees, Dolphins, and Humpback Whales
(17) The Lonely Self (II): Why Carl Sagan is so Anxious to Establish Communication with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
(18) The Demoniac Self: Why it is the Autonomous Self becomes Possessed by the Spirit of the Erotic and the Secret Love of Violence, and how Unlucky it is that this should have Happened in the Nuclear Age
A Space Odyssey (I). (19) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos: What would you say if you met a man Friday out there? What do you think he would say to you? Could you understand him?
A Space Odyssey (II). (20) The Self Marooned in the Cosmos: What do you do if there is no man Friday out there and we really are alone?
