| Prologue |
| PART ONE |
| I. Anecdotic Self-Potrait |
| II. Intra-Uterine Memories |
| III. Birth of Salvador Dali |
| IV. False Childhood Memories |
| V. True Childhood Memories |
| The Story of the Linden-Blossom Picking and the Crutch |
| PART TWO |
| VI. Adolescence; Grasshopper; Explusion from School; End of the European War |
| VII. "It"; Philosophic Studies; Unfulfilled Love; Technical Experiments; My "Stone Period"; End of Love Affair; Mother's Death" |
| VIII. Apprenticeship to Glory; Suspension from the School of Fine Arts of Madrid; Dandyism and Prison |
| IX. Return to Madrid; Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts; Voyage to Paris; Meeting with Gala; Beginnings of the Difficult Idyll of my Sole and Only Love Story; I am Disowned by my Family |
| Tale of the Wax Manikin with the Sugar Nose |
| PART THREE |
| X. Beginnings in Society; Crutches; Aristocracy; Hôtel du Château in Carry-le Rouet; Lydia; Port Lligat; Inventions; Malaga; Poverty; L'Age d'Or |
| XI. "My Battle; My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution; "Surrealist Object" versus "Narrated Dream"; Critical-Paranoiac Activity versus Automatism" |
| XII. "Glory Between the Teeth, Anguish Between the Legs; Gala Discovers and Inspires the Classicism of my Soul" |
| XIII. Metamorphosis; Death; Resurrection |
| XIV. Florence; Munich; Monte Carlo; Bonwit Teller; New European War; Battle Between Mlle. Chanel and M. Clavet; Return to Spain; Lisbon; Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought; Cosmogony; Perennial Victory of the Acanthus Leaf; Renaissance |
| Epilogue |