Danielle Knafo's latest book, well organized, well researched, and enriched by illustrative clinical material, comprises two parts: “The Art of Psychoanalysis” and “The Psychoanalysis of Art.” The first focuses on how the conduct of psychoanalysis and the creation of art share similar processes. The second applies psychoanalytic concepts to works of art.

In Part 1 Knafo develops her thesis by illustrating how both psychoanalysis and the arts seek to bring unconscious content into consciousness. The “unconscious” for Knafo is “a territory without full and accurate maps,