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