Preface
Introduction
Chapter I Saul Bellow and the Poetics of Ephebism
1. The Young and Gerontic Images: Binary Characterization in The Adventures of Augie March
2. Ephebism. Looking for the Elusive Truth in Henderson the Rain King
3. Subverting the "Name of the Father" : Pathological Culture in Herzog
Chapter II Philip Roth and the Anatomy of American Culturopathology
1. Individualist Terrorism or Terrorist Individualism: Paranoia as the American National Character in The Plot Against America
2. Democratic Terrorism or Terrorist Democracy: Conspiracism as the American Cultural Identity in The Plot Against America
3. Universalist Terrorism and Terrorist Universalism: Mass Hysteria as the American Communal Behavior in The Plot Against America
Chapter III Don DeLillo and Cultural Pathology of Late Capitalism
1. Sovereign Interpolation and Social Paranoia: Social Mechanism of Cultural Pathology in The Names
2. Cultural Dysfunction and Collective X-Syndromes: Psycho-Mechanism of Cultural Pathology in White Noise
3. Empowerment and Cultural Aphasia: Signification Dysfunction in Libra
4. Subjective Resistance and Critique of Dominant Power: Towards a Cultural Therapy in Mao II
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

本书借鉴尼采、马克思、弗洛伊德及其诸多现代和后现代批评理论，特别是经典马克思主义关于帝国主义的政治社会分析，结合当代批评话语对资本主义和晚期资本主义的文化剖析，从社会机制、心理机制、文化表征及文化病理治疗方式等层面进行研究，揭示了美国文化本身的病理本质，显示了文化病理学批评的深刻透视力。