ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
FOREWORD
Meg Harris Williams
INTRODUCTION
Donald Meltzer
1 The apprehension of beauty (1973)
Donald Meltzer
2 Aesthetic conflict: its place in development
Donald Meltzer
3 On first impressions
Donald Meltzer
4 On aesthetic reciprocity
Donald Meltzer
5 The role of the father in early development
Donald Meltzer
6 The problem of violence
Donald Meltzer
7 The undiscovered country: the shape of the aesthetic conflict in Hamlet
Meg Harris Williams
(i) The mould of form
(ii) The lobby of dreams
(iii) The Queen’s arras
(iv) The yet unknowing world
8 The place of aesthetic conflict in the analytic process
Donald Meltzer
9 The retreat from aesthetic conflict: cynicism, perversity and the vulgarisation of taste
Donald Meltzer
10 Recovery of the aesthetic object
Donald Meltzer
11 Holding the dream: the nature of aesthetic appreciation
Meg Harris Williams
(i) Aesthetic appreciation through symbolic congruence
(ii) Beneficence in space: Stokes on Turner
(iii) On Westminster Bridge
12 The shadows in the cave and the writing on the wall
Donald Meltzer
ADDENDUM I: Concerning the social basis of art
Donald Meltzer and Adrian Stokes
ADDENDUM II: Mindlessness – the developmental relation of psychosomatics, hyperactivity, and hallucinosis
Donald Meltzer
AFTERWORD
Maria Rhode
REFERENCES
INDEX