Gilbert Rose's short, intense—highly concentrated and intricately circular—book is a major, and I think convincing, attempt to show parallels between art and psychoanalysis, and finally to integrate them, however indirectly. It is not just another psychoanalysis of art, but an argument for their reciprocity and convergence. The book is the third and final volume in an extended exploration of their relationship. As Rose writes: ‘The Power of Form (1980) focused on the correspondence between aesthetic form and psychic process, construing each as involving an interplay between two different ways of organizing data: wide focus, holistic imagination