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The eminent English critic, Sir Herbert Read, values an aesthetic object to the degree that it serves to express a pattern of emotion symbolically. He has written (1951) that aesthetics must consequently be based in part on a depth psychology capable of elucidating hidden symbolism, i.e., of showing the abstract, nonrepresentational nature of symbols. Psychoanalysis has therefore served as an indispensable tool in the development of art