The first form of this book was written from a general background of standard psycho-analytical writings, such as the works of Freud, Ferenczi, Ernest Jones, Abraham, Ella Sharpe, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, etc. Themes of particular relevance to the ideas expressed in the appendix are to be found in the following works:
Ehrenzweig, Anton. The Psycho-Analysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
‘The Modern Artist and the Creative Accident.’ London, The Listener, Jan. 12, 1956.
Fairbairn, W. R. D. ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art.’ Brit. J. of Psychol. Vol. XXVIII, 1938.
Freud, Anna. ‘A Connection between the States of Negativism and of Emotional Surrender.’ Abstract. Int. J. of Psycho-Anal. Vol. XXXIII, 1952.
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. (Revised edition, Allen and Unwin, 1937, Chapter VII.)
The Origins of Psycho-Analysis. Letters to Wm. Fliess 1887–1902. London, Imago Publishing Co., 1954.
Gombrich, E. H. ‘Psycho-Analysis and the History of Art.’ Ernest Jones Lecture, 1953. Int. J. of Psycho-Anal. Vol. XXV, 1954.
‘Meditations on a Hobby Horse, or the Roots of Artistic Form’ in Aspects of Form, ed. L. L. Whyte. London, Lund Humphries, 1951.
Jones, Ernest. ‘The Theory of Symbolism’ (1916) in Papers on Psycho-Analysis. London, Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1948. Sigmund Freud, his Life and Work. London, Hogarth Press, 1953, ff.
Jung, C. G., and Wilhelm, Richard. The Secret of the Golden Flower. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1931.
Klein, Melanie. ‘Infantile Anxiety Situations reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse’ in Contributions to PsychoAnalysis 1921–1945. London, Hogarth Press, 1948.
Kris, Ernst. Psycho-Analytical Explorations in Art. London, Allen and Unwin, 1953. ‘Neutralisation and Sublimation’ in Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child. Vol. X. London, Imago Publishing Co., 1955.
Langer, Susanne. Philosophy in a New Key.A study in the symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1942. Feeling and Form. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
Lewin, Bertram. The Psycho-Analysis of Elation. London, Hogarth Press, 1951.
Maritain, Jacques. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. New York, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1953.
Milner, Marion. ‘The Communication of Primary Sensual Experi-ence’. Int. J. of Psycho-Anal. Vol. XXXVII, 1956. ‘The Role of Illusion in Symbol Formation’ in New Directions in Psycho-Analysis, edited by Melanie Klein and others. London, Tavistock Publications, 1955.
Read, Herbert. ‘Psycho-Analysis and the Problem of Aesthetic Value.’ Int. J. of Psycho-Anal. Vol. XXXII, 1951. ‘Art and the Development of Personality.’Brit. J. of Med. Psychol. Vol. XXV, 1952. Icon and Idea. The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness. London, Faber and Faber, 1955.
Reik, Theodor. The Inner Experience of a Psycho-Analyst. London, Allen and Unwin, 1949.
Scott, W. Clifford M. ‘The Body Scheme in Psycho-Therapy.’ Brit. J. of Med. Psychol. Vol. XXII, 1949.
Segal, Hanna. ‘The Psycho-Analytic Approach to Aesthetics’ in New Directions in Psycho-Analysis, edited by Melanie Klein and others.
Sharpe, Ella. Similar and Divergent Unconscious Determinants Underlying the Sublimations of Pure Art and Pure Science, 1935. ‘Psycho-Physical Problems revealed in Language; an Examination of Metaphor’, 1940 in Collected Papers on Psycho-Analysis. London, Hogarth Press, 1950.
Stokes, Adrian. ‘Form in Art’ in New Directions in Psycho-Analysis. edited by Melanie Klein and others. London, Tavistock Publications, 1955.
Inside Out. London, Faber and Faber, 1947.
Smooth and Rough. London, Faber and Faber, 1951.
Michelangelo. A Study in the Nature of Art. London, Tavistock Publications, 1955.
Colour and Form. London, Faber and Faber, 1937.
Vivante, Leone. English Poetry and its contribution to the knowledge of a creative principle. London, Faber and Faber, 1950.
Winnicott, D. W. ‘The Child and the Family’, ‘The Child and the Outside World’. London, Tavistock Publications, 1957. ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena.’ Int. J. of Psycho-Anal. Vol. XXXIV, 1953.