Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics -- The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days -- Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book -- Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition -- Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship -- Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media -- Ain’t It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis -- Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Diasporic Short Fictions -- Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott’s Omeros.