The aim of this article is to explore several psychoanalytic aspects of artistic creativity, the work of art and its impact on the audience. The author believes that a work of art can be viewed as a container of the non-integrated parts of the self of both the artist and the beholder. Within this frame, the relationship between the artist and their audience is regarded as a container-contained commensal relationship. The author suggests that, through contact with the formal aspects of a work of art, the viewer regresses to a state of perceptive omnipotence that can be linked to non-differentiation between self and not-self; this could play an important role in aesthetic pleasure. Relevant examples are presented and discussed.