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A collection of essays drawn from the May 1976 National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis—New York University symposia on “Self and Culture Today,” Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literature explores new directions in psychoanalysis and literary and cultural studies. Not just reworking old avenues of thought but rather breaking into unexplored areas, the contributors, in a truly interdisciplinary way, examine the relationship between culture, science, and art. Each author has his own particular concern—for instance, examining the death instinct (J. Pontalis, “On Death-Work in Freud,