This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra Gosso begins with a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the history of this relationship that began with Freud and was further developed by Melanie Klein, at a time when most analysts were moving away from links with art. Melanie Klein's pivotal paper - Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse - follows the Introduction. The other papers featured are...