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| Acknowledgements | vii |
| About the Author | ix |
| Introduction | xiii |
| Chapter One. | 1 |
| Psychoanalysis: An Art or a Science? | |
| The Limitations of Promethean Science. Artistic Openings. | |
| The New Idea. | |
| Chapter Two. | 25 |
| Aesthetic Concepts of Bion and Meltzer | |
| Aesthetic Conflict. Catastrophic Change. | |
| Chapter Three. | 53 |
| The Domain of the Aesthetic Object | |
| The Symbol. The Caesura. Poetic Inspiration. | |
| Psychoanalytic Faith. |
| Chapter Four. | 91 |
| Sleeping Beauty | |
| Keats' “Ode to a Nightingale”. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. | |
| Chapter Five. | 119 |
| Moving Beauty |
| Beneficence in Space: On Life-Drawing. |
| Chapter Six. | 133 |
| Psychoanalysis as an Art Form |
| The Stuff of Dreams. Symbolic Congruence. Objects in Common. |
| A Note on Terminology. |
| Afterword |
| My Kleinian Ancestors | 171 |
| References and Bibliography | 185 |
| Index | 195 |