Beginnings -- Freud's Leonardo : the controversy -- The psychological impact of imagery -- Art and the Oedipus Complex -- Dreams, delusions, and art -- Michelangelo's Moses and other Michelangelo problems -- The transitional object and its implications for creativity and symbolization -- Some psychological aspects of the mother-child relationship in Western art -- Psychoanalytic readings of primal-scene iconography -- Biography, autobiography, and psychobiography -- Psychobiography : Caravaggio, Artemisia, Brancusi -- Aesthetics on trial : Whistler vs. Ruskin.
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