Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ONE Introduction -- The Developmental Matrix of Aesthetic Experience -- Idealization -- The Creative Process -- The Sense of Beauty -- Ugliness -- The Sublime -- Festival -- TWO Understanding Aesthetic Experience -- The Philosophy of Aesthetic Experience -- A New Psychoanalytic Model of Aesthetic Experience -- THREE The Development of Aesthetic Experience -- FOUR Idealization and Aesthetic Experience -- Idealization: A Developmental/Relational Model -- Clinical Illustration -- Idealization in Creativity and Aesthetic Experience -- FIVE The Creative Process -- Creativity and Selfobject Experience -- Clinical Illustration -- SIX The Sense of Beauty -- The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Our Understanding of Beauty -- The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Sense of Beauty: An Integration -- SEVEN Ugliness -- The Problem of Ugliness -- The Problem of Ugliness and Psychoanalytic Theory -- Encountering Ugliness -- Ugliness in Psychopathology -- Clinical Illustration -- Conclusion -- EIGHT The Sublime -- A Brief History of the Sublime -- Psychoanalytic Contributionst to the Concept of the Sublime -- The Psychoanalytic Sublime -- The Maternal Aesthetic:Tthe Matrix of Beauty -- The Paternal Aesthetic: The Source of the Sublime -- The Psychological Function of the Sublime -- NINE Festival -- Metasubjectivity -- Intersubjectivity -- Subjectivity -- Culture -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.