1. Introduction: the experience of human communication as a threshold of relational consciousness
2. Therapy, vulnerability, and feeling in the interstices of embodied expression: an explication of human communicative experience
3. The mirrored body: phenomenological reflections on the visual experience of the reflected self
4. On contact: the phatic function of communication
5. Body, liquidity, and flesh: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, and the elements of interpersonal communication
6. The diabolical parable and the devil in speech
7. Identity, intimacy, and eroticism: deception, sin, and the existential bargain of adolescent embodiment
8. An archaeology of gender symbols and a theory of communication
9. The flesh of human communicative embodiment and the game of intimacy
10. The dream and the self: consciousness, identity, the sign, and the image
11. Conclusion: the dawning of communicology.