CONTENTS The Skins We Slit Seeking the Vertebrae of Snakes / 3 The self is not a shadow of the self. Personality State: Prophet / 7 Personality State: Scavenger's Daughter / 8 Personality State: Persephone / 9 Personality State: Animal / 11 Personality State: Convict / 12 Personality State: Statue / 13 Personality State: Husk / 14 The self is not a symptom. Felon's Logic /17 Stockholm Syndrome with Death as the Captor / 19 Phobia / 21 Hemorrhage / 22 Somnambulism / 23 Empathy / 24 Afterburn / 26 The self is not a battery of tests. Interview under Hypnosis / 29 Rorschach Test / 31 Polygraph Test / 32 X-Ray of a Rib Cage / 34 The Smoldering Hand / 35 Sound of Eye, Wind, and Limb / 37 Eye / 38 The self is not what is said about the self. Autobiography toward a Study of the Thousand Wounds / 41 Autobiography with God Complex and Epidemic / 43 Autobiography in Not-Song and October / 45 What the Cultivation Means / 47 The Unspeakable, Said / 48 Conjugating the Void / 49 The self is not a study of the world. There Remain New Branches / 53 World Hypothesis / 54 The Zoology of Imaginary Joy / 55 The Botany of Man-Made Things / 56 Memory: / 57 Theory of Relativity / 58 Body Thesaurus / 59 The self is not a cure. Antidote with Attempts at Diagnosis / 63 Antidote with Placebo / 65 Antidote with Beatitudes / 67 Antidote with Early Weather / 68 Antidote with Symptoms / 69 Tourniquet / 70 Preventing a Relapse / 71 Wholeness Is an Imagined State / 75 Acknowledgments / 78.