List of illustrations ix
Foreword by Anna Freud xiii
Introduction xvii
Note to second edition xxi
New introduction by Janet Sayers xxiii
PART I The emergence of the free drawings (Firing of the imagination) 1
1 What the eye likes 3
2 Being separate and being together 10
3 Outline and the solid earth 17
4 The plunge into colour 26
5 The necessity of illusion 31
PART II The content of the free drawings (Crucifying the imagination) 39
6 Monsters within and without 41
7 Disillusion and hating 53
8 Preserving what one loves 65
PART III The method of the free drawings (Incarnating the imagination) 81
9 Reciprocity and ordered freedom 83
10 Refusal of reciprocity 90
11 Ideals and the fatal prejudice 101
12 Rhythm and the freedom of the free drawings 110
13 The concentration of the body 123
PART IV The use of the free drawings (The image as mediator) 131
14 The role of the medium 133
15 The role of images 141
PART V The use of painting 147
16 Painting and living 149
17 Painting as making real 159
Postscript: What it amounts to 169
APPENDIX 173
I The ordering of chaos 173
II The anal aspect of the parrot’s egg 174
III Infantile prototypes of creativity 178
IV Changes in the sense of self 179
V Rhythm relaxation and the orgasm 182
VI Painting and symbols 184
VII The two kinds of thinking 188
VIII Painting and imitation 190
IX A place for absent-mindedness 191
Bibliography to first edition 194
Bibliography to second edition 195
Description of original drawings 198
Index 201