Table of Contents
Preface , Introduction , Art as Reparation , Infantile anxiety-situations reflected in a work of art and in the creative impulse , A psycho-analytical approach to aesthetics , Three unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflected in examples from literature , The role of illusion in symbol formation , The invitation in art , Post-Kleinian Thought , The apprehension of beauty , The delusion of clarity of insight , The relation of dreaming to learning from experience in patient and analyst , The aesthetic object , Concerning the perception of one's own attributes and its relation to language development , On turbulence , Dénouement , Aesthetic conflict: its place in the developmental process , The place of aesthetic conflict in the analytic process , New considerations on the concept of the aesthetic conflict , The geographic dimension of the mental apparatus , The compartments of the internal mother , Disorders of thought , The lobby of dreams , Aesthetic appreciation through symbolic congruence , Keats: soul-making , Entry to the claustrum , Parallel directions in psychoanalysis