COVER -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- GLOSSARY -- Introduction: From reparation to the aesthetic conflict -- ANTHOLOGY I: Art as reparation -- 1 Infantile anxiety-situations reflected in a work of artand in the creative impulse -- 2 A psycho-analytical approach to aesthetics -- 3 The unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflectedin examples from literature -- 4 The role of illusion in symbol formation -- 5 The invitation in art -- ANTHOLOGY II: Post-Kleinian thought -- 6 The apprehension of beauty -- 7 The delusion of clarity of insight -- 8 The relation of dreaming to learning from experiencein patient and analyst -- 9 The aesthetic object -- 10 Concerning the perception of one's own attributesand its relation to language development -- 11 On turbulence -- 12 Dénouement -- 13 Aesthetic conflict: its place in the developmental process -- 14 The place of aesthetic conflict in the analytic process -- 15 New considerations on the concept of the aestheticconflict -- 16 The geographic dimension of the mental apparatus -- 17 The compartments of the internal mother -- 18 Disorders of thought -- 19 The lobby of dreams -- 20 Aesthetic appreciation through symbolic congruence -- 21 Keats: soul-making -- 22 Entry to the claustrum -- 23 Parallel directions in psychoanalysis -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NAME INDEX.