1. Writing Non-Psychoanalytically: The First Modern Comedies and The Shakespearean Imagination
2. Becoming a Freudian: Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare
3. Theorizing Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: The Dynamics of Literary Response
4. Developing a New Model of Reader-Response Criticism: Poems in Persons and 5 Readers Reading
5. Extending Identity Theory in the 1980s: “Re-Covering ‘The Purloined Letter,” Laughing, The I and Being Human, and The Brain of Robert Frost
6. Speaking in a Lone Voice Among the New Cryptics: Holland’s Guide and The Critical I
7. Penning Fiction: “A Cyberreader Defends” and Death in a Delphi Seminar
8. Exposing the Film Critic’s Free Associations: Meeting Movies
9. Venturing into a New Field: Literature and the Brain
10. Contemplating Endings
Conclusion: Norman Holland’s Legacy
Works Cited