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I: Sex, Religion, Science, and Literature.- I. Introduction.- II. The Science of Psychoanalysis and Sexuality.- II: The Naturalistic Eros in America.- III. The Forerunners of Revolt.- IV. Dreiser and Sexual Freedom.- V. Sherwood Anderson: The Phallic Chekhov.- VI. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age.- VII. Eugene O’Neill: The Tragedy of Love without God.- VIII. The Hemingway Cult of Love.- IX. Faulkner’s World of Love and Sex.- III: The Mystique of Sex in Contemporary American Literature.- Section A: Sex as Salvation.- X. Henry Miller: Prophet of the Sexual Revolution.- XI. The Sexualized World of the Beat Generation.- XII. Norman Mailer: Salvation and the Apocalyptic Orgasm.- Section B: The Dialectic of the Sex Mystique.- XIII. The Death of Love.- XIV. Satyriasis and Nymphomania.- IV: Conclusion.- XV. Conclusion.- Appendix: The Problem of Censorship.