Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The concept of motivation -- Introduction -- 1 Instincts and impulses -- 2 On some corruptions of the doctrine of homeostasis -- 3 Do intervening variables intervene? -- 4 The concept of attitude -- 5 The composition of the ego in a determinist psychology -- 6 John Anderson: implications of his philosophic views for psychology -- Part Two: Epistemology and the nature of cognition -- Introduction -- 7 Representationism, realism and the redundancy of 'mentalese' -- 8 Psychoanalysis, epistemology and intersubjectivity: theories of Wilfred Bion -- 9 Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse -- Part Three: Psychoanalytic metapsychology -- Introduction -- 10 The complementarity of object-relations and instinct theory -- 11 Problems in the concept of repression and proposals for their resolution -- Part Four: Psychoanalytic readings of literature, history and art -- Introduction -- 12 Dostoevsky's problems with the concept of conscience: Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov -- 13 Dostoyevsky: epilepsy, mysticism and homosexuality -- 14 Classical female oedipal themes in To the Lighthouse -- 15 Virginia Woolf: ideas of marriage and death in The Voyage Out -- 16 Harold L. Ickes: a psychohistorical perspective -- 17 A grammar of painting? -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.