As doctors, you are interested in what literature can teach about psychology; as a reader and student I am chiefly interested in what psychology can teach me about literature.

Long before we had a name for it, authors were strongly aware of that mysterious world of the mind which lies beneath immediate consciousness. It contains the very stuff of creativity; without its activity there can be no truly creative art. All our greatest writers have known this, but they have known, too, that the artist must become an artisan in his use of materials from this “buried life” or dream