- List of Illustrations*
- Preface
- Introduction: Midway between Oedipus and Marx
- 1. Tragedy and Revolution
- 2. Tragedy and Metaphysics
- 3. Tragedy and History
- 4. Tragedy and Gender
- 5. Tragedy and Subjectivity
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- Karl Marx as Prometheus, chained to a printing press while the eagle of Prussian censorship rips out his liver
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Oedipe explique l’énigme du sphinx (1808), Louvre
- Replica of bookplate designed by Freud circa 1910, based on the medallion presented to Freud for his fiftieth birthday
- Logo of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag