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| Acknowledgements | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Chapter 1 Belief and Psychic Reality | 8 |
| Chapter 2 Naming and Containing | 19 |
| Chapter 3 Oedipus in the Depressive Position | 29 |
| Chapter 4 Subjectivity, Objectivity and Triangular Space | 41 |
| Chapter 5 The Suspension of Belief and the ‘As-If’ Syndrome | 59 |
| Chapter 6 Before and After the Depressive Position: Ps(n)→D(n)→Ps(n+1) | 69 |
| Chapter 7 Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life | 82 |
| Chapter 8 The Analyst’s Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea? | 97 |
| Chapter 9 Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction | 109 |
| Chapter 10 The Other Room and Poetic Space | 120 |
| Chapter 11 Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss | 128 |
| Chapter 12 Existential Anxiety: Rilke’s Duino Elegies | 146 |
| Chapter 13 Milton’s Destructive Narcissist or Blake’s True Self? | 166 |
| Chapter 14 William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism | 178 |
| Chapter 15 Publication Anxiety | 197 |
| References | 211 |