Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan's Fiction

Introduction Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of Eden Chapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal Superego Part 2: Developments Chapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child Within Chapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish Masculinity Chapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the Real Chapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other's Desire Part 3: Maturity Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via Amsterdam Chapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifist Chapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil Beach Part 4: Recent Fiction Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of Desire Chapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive Manipulation Chapter