Claire Pajaczkowska leads a group of doctoral researchers investigating the agency of tacit knowledge in the creative process, at the Royal College of Art, London. Her own PhD 'Before Language' (1989 School of Humanities, Middlesex University) was a study of psychoanalysis and materialism. Recent publications include 'Thread of Attachment in Textiles: the Journal of Cloth and Culture' (Berg,2007); with Ivan Ward 'Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture' (Routledge,2008); 'The Sublime Now' (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010); and 'On Humming: Marion Milner's contribution to psychoan...