Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- Acknowledgmentsx -- References to Osborne's Works xi -- 1. Osborne's Phallic Art 1 -- Part I -- 2. Rise to the Top, 1956-1963 29 -- 3. Look Back in Anger (1956): Of Bears and Traps 45 -- 4. The Entertainer (1957): The Use of Despair 63 -- 5. Luther (1961): The Negative Way of Anger 85 -- Part II -- 6. At the Top, 1964-1971 109 -- 7. Inadmissible Evidence (1964): The Birthing of the Self 123 -- 8. A Patriot for Me (1965): Society and the Hidden Self 141 -- Part III -- 9. The Long Descent, 1972-1994 163 -- 10. A Sense of Detachment (1972): The Limits of Authenticity 177 -- 11. Watch It Come Down (1976): A Most Necessary Failure 197 -- 12. Dejavu (1992): Elegy for Lost Origins 213 -- A Note on Further Reading 234 -- Notes 235 -- Index 255.