The author stresses the importance of psychoanalytic insight for the critic. The function of the critic is to make conscious to the spectator what the latter has experienced preconsciously or unconsciously both as to the content and the formal qualities of the work of art. Present-day art criticism requires an insight into the inner life of the artist and the manner in which it is reflected in the work of creation. The critic's own awareness of his unconscious emotional attitudes to the artist and his creations will minimize distortion of his critical statements. Criticism which incorporates psychoanalytic insight may well be called creative criticism. It requires the ability to avoid idealized identification with the artist or his creations.