Northwestern University Press, 2015 (315 pages)
Contents
Introduction: The Horizons of Personality
Part One. Wars of Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Chapter One: “Clear and Distinct”: Two Aspects of Cognition in Descartes
Chapter Two: The (Dis-)Unity of Time, Place, and Cognition
Part Two. Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Twentieth-Century Psychology
Chapter Three: Freud between Drama and Narrative
Chapter Four: Modalities of Personality in Behaviorism, Narrative Psychology, and Dual-Process
Theory
Part Three. Reading French Classicism, Cognitively: Corneille, Molière, Lafayette, and La Bruyère
Chapter Five: Corneille’s Novelistic Comedies
Chapter Six: Molière and the Novel
Chapter Seven: Narrativity and Theatricality in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Montpensier, Zaïde,
and La Princesse de Clèves
Chapter Eight: La Bruyère: Playwright, Narrativist, Psychologist
Conclusion : “Taking Note” of Personality