Abbreviations and Chronology Part 1: The Nothingness of All Things 1. Present by Default 2. Mystical Seduction 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean 4. Homo Viator Part 2: Understanding Through Fiction 5. Prayer, Writing, Politics 6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch 7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in Me Part 3: The Wanderer 8.

Everything So Constrained Me 9. Her Lovesickness 10. The Ideal Father and the Host Part 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being 11. Bombs and Ramparts 12. " Cristo como hombre " 13. Image, Vision, and Rapture 14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices" 15. A Clinical Lucidity 16.

The Minx and the Sage 17. Better to Hide.' 18. ". Or 'to do what lies within my power' "? 19. From Hell to Foundation Part 5: From Ecstasy to Action 20. The Great Tide 21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty 22.

The Maternal Vocation 23. Constituting Time 24. Tutti a cavallo Part 6: Foundation-Persecution 25. The Mystic and the Jester 26. A Father Is Beaten to Death 27. A Runaway Girl 28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions" 29. "With the ears of the soul" Part 7: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave 30.

Act I. Her Women 31. Act II. Her Eliseus 32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca" 33. Act IV. The Analyst's Farewell Part 8: Postscript 34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun Notes Sources.