Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Belief and psychic reality -- Naming and containing -- Oedipus in the depressive position -- Subjectivity, objectivity and triangular space -- The suspension of belief and the 'as-if' syndrome -- Before and after the depressive position: -- Complacency in analysis and everyday life -- The analyst's intuition: selected fact or overvalued idea? -- Daydream, phantasy and fiction -- The other room and poetic space -- Wordsworth: the loss of presence and the presence of loss -- Existential anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies -- Milton's destructive narcissist or Blake's true self? -- William Blake and epistemic narcissism -- Publication anxiety -- References -- Index.