Acnowledgements Filmography Personal and Methodological Preface CHAPTER 1. Bergman and the Liminal Cinema CHAPTER 2. Prologue: The Call to Hades CHAPTER 3. To Go Silent, or to be Silenced CHAPTER 4. Introvert Meets Extravert CHAPTER 5. The World Is on Fire CHAPTER 6. The Hopeless Dream of Being CHAPTER 7. Liminal Time and Space CHAPTER 8. Alma's Anamnesis and Transference, Part One CHAPTER 9. Alma's Anamnesis and Transference, Part Two CHAPTER 10. Two Betrayals and the Breaking of Vessels CHAPTER 11. Alma's Nekyia, Part One CHAPTER 12. Alma's Nekyia, Part Two CHAPTER 13. "Nothing" and the Regressive Restoration of the Persona CHAPTER 14. The Film with Four Endings CHAPTER 15. Bergman and Prophetic Art Endnotes