Abilities, lost, recovery of xv

Absent-mindedness xiii, 8, 9, 191

Abstraction xiv

Abyss 29, 35, 114

Accident 7, 16, 151, 184

Accidental, dominance of 70

Action 84;

v. contemplation 163;

contemplative 163, 179;

deliberate xiv;

in drawings 38, 41;

and imagination 149;

imaginative perception of 19;

of picture 125;

and thought 86

Activity:

artist’s fundamental xv;

creative, will and 121–2;

free 119–20;

method of control 120;

and purpose 101

Activity-between 148

Adult life 13, 164, 192

Aesthetic:

experience 6, 152;

pleasure 6;

theory xix

Aesthetics xxii;

logic and 188

Affection 34, 35

Affects xiv, 181

Aggression, aggressiveness 43, 48;

in children 178;

control of 79

Aim, primary, of artist xv

Alice in Wonderland xxxii, xxxiii, 5, 6, 107, 190

Allegiance, divided 25

Amateur painter xiii;

see also Sunday-painter

Ambivalence 175

Anal phase 174

Analysand, need of courage xiv, 42;

see also Patient

Analysis, result of xiv;

see also Psycho-analysis

Analyst 136, 139, 144, 187;

anxiety in xiv;

non-reaction of 139;

patient and xxi

Anger xxxii, 5, 20, 49, 56, 58;

and experimental painting 20;

see also Rage

Angles, sharp and blunt 4

Animism 43, 134

Antitheses 90, 92, 93, 95, 99

Anus 177

Anxiety(-ies) xiv, xv, 76, 182, 183;

social, and muscular tension 183

Ape, Angry xlvi, 61–2, 65, 68, 92, 101, 105, 178

Ape in Eden xlvi, 59, 178

Appearances:

accidental, of nature 20;

barrier of 4;

copies of 4;

letting go 19

Appetite, animal 35

Appreciation 120

Ardizzone, Edward xxxiv

Art(s) 132;

creative process in xiv;

function of xv, 79, 161, 187;

and love and hate of things 120;

meaning of the 120;

psychology of xix;

resistance of new forms 155;

restoring split 151;

visual and literary 124;

works of 21, 43, 123, 187

‘Art creates nature’ 162, 189

Art Galleries 3

Artist:

professional xiii;

in us 155, 158, 161

‘As if’ 152

Association, free xiii

Assumptions, educational xviii

Attention:

narrow focus of 14, 98–9, 128;

non-embracing 125;

and orgasm 183;

two kinds of 99;

and will-power 121

Attitudes:

negativistic xv;

new xv

Auden, W.H. xxxi

Authority:

in living process 110;

rebellion against 53, 56, 58, 77;

rules imposed by 113;

subservience to 118;

as support 56

Avengers 117

Awareness:

body 84, 124, 183;

conscious 115

Babbage, Charles xxiii

Babble:

of lines 87;

rhythm in 158

Baby xxxvii, 47, 72, 117, 171, 178

Babyhood:

conflicts in 178;

space in 14

Balance 109, 112–13, 117, 142, 144, 156, 182, 186

Beauty, preconceived ideas about 7

Becomingness 163

Beeches, Blasted 9, 24, 43, 76, 87, 135

Being, new way of 105, 165

Belief(s) 146, 153;

as achievement 37;

familiar xviii;

re moral teaching xviii

Bell, Graham 106

Bisexuality xxx, 100

Bits 144–5;

conglomeration of 9;

meaningless 76

Blackett, Arthur Stuart xxiv

Blackett, Patrick xxiv, xlvii

Blackett, Winifred xxiii

Blake, William xi, xiv, xxxv, xlv, 15, 35, 65, 71, 87, 99, 185n;

quoted xiv, 24, 62, 65, 71, 87, 99

Blankness 180–1

Body(-ies), dreams 125;

imaginative,

spreading 65, 78, 96, 124;

limits of 68;

real and imaginative 42, 124;

separate 13

Bohusz-Szyszko, M. xxxviii, xliii

Bones, dead 150, 189

Books xix, xlv, 3–4, 6, 10, 13–14, 26, 70, 111, 113, 116, 118, 169

Boredom 4

Bottle, and baby,

Boundaries:

of colour 29;

fear of loss of 19;

id-ego xv;

of masses 17;

rigid 19;

self and object xv;

of spiritual identity 166

Bowels 179, 182

Breast 37;

‘otherness’ of 71

Bridge;

analyst as 120;

between experience and thought 144;

between public and private worlds 136;

to external world 138;

to objectivity 63

Britton, Clare xxxvii, xxxviii

Brooding quality of nature 20

Buchan, John xxxi

Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress 30, 106

Burger, S.G.H. xxiii

Burt, Cyril xxvi

Cannibal 70;

cannibalistic phantasies 189

Carroll, Lewis, see Alice in Wonderland

Carrot 16

Castaway 138, 145

Castle, blazing 53–4

Centipede 48, 115

Certainty, false 89

Cézanne, Paul, xxviii, 29, 162, 192n.

Chair 11, 16, 49, 190

Chalk drawings xix, xx, 133–4

Change:

art and 153;

avoiding 76;

impulse towards 113;

postural 125;

world of 29

Changeability 150

Chaos xiii, 23, 87–9, 113, 118, 122, 173;

spirit brooding over 23

Charcoal drawings xix, xx, 7, 133–4;

random 7

Child(’s);

and authority 49;

and body products 176;

and environment 192;

first love 58;

and ‘good’ and ‘bad’ 78;

and loss of love 66;

and omnipotence 178;

and time 136

Childbirth 114

Childhood, desire to paint in xvii;

disillusions of 65;

spectacle of parents together 101;

wilfulness 58

drawings of 108;

and educational methods xvii

Church 27

Classes, painting xxii, 3

Co-creation 100

Code, moral 78, 106

Coldstream, William xxiii

Colour(s), xiv, 21, 25ff. 142;

of earth 21;

and feelings 183;

felt as living 29–30;

flood of 30;

Goethe on 130;

intellectual attitude to 191;

mental impressions 28;

and nature 18;

and submergence in nature 92–3;

symbolic meaning 183;

transition of 27;

use of 25–6, 191

Combination(s):

colour 21;

of parts into whole 16

Command, from above 170

Common sense 10, 89;

appearances, letting go 19;

man 154;

transfiguration of 25;

world 25, 29, 30;

world, sensory foundation of 13

Communicability 144, 155

Communication 86, 136, 145

Complexes xviii

Composition 14, 94;

imaginary 14

Concentration 108–9;

wide embracing 99;

exercises in 109;

at school 127, 129;

state of 83, 128, 165

Concepts, as formulating experience 141

Conflict(s) 144;

internal 87

Con-fusing:

art, as 188;

of me and not-me 193

Confusion xv, 104, 193

Conscience 58

Consciousness;

blanking out of 180;

changes of 180;

and colour 26, 28, 183;

creative 179;

dream and 32;

and light 183;

suffusing body 125, 182

Consonants 145

Contact, bodily 36

Contemplation v. action 163

Content:

and form xiv, 64;

surprise in xiv

Contraries 87

Contrasts, colour 3

Control(s):

abandonment of 118;

activity method 120;

inherent form of 118;

by rhythm 115

Controversy, analytic, in creativity xv

Convention, artistic 155

Cooper, Duff xxxv

Co-operation 128, 166

Copy(-ies):

external, dispensing with 30;

of object 4, 28, 180;

unconscious 190

Couch, analytic xiii

Counterfeits 3, 107

Country, loved places in 34

Courage xiv, 15, 70, 88;

and artistic vision 14

Creation 156;

orgiastic feelings during xv;

process of xiv;

sinister aspect 73

Creative work, artistic and literary xv

Creativity, creativeness xviii, 173;

adult xiii;

and painting 16;

paradox of 167;

psychic xiii, xv, xvii, 173–4, 190

Curve:

of the Downs 7;

upwards 4

Dancer, good 183

Dancing 48–9, 118, 124–5, 179

Danger(s) 107;

of the conceptual 141–2;

of imagination 30;

of plunge into colour 30;

spiritual 15, 17, 31

Darkness xli, 10, 29;

meaning 10

Darks and Lights 3

Darwin, Charles 125

Day-dreaming 86, 192

Dead, world of the 76

Death 70, 74, 113, 115, 157

Deed, purpose to 101, 169

Delight 25, 30, 108, 115, 165

Democracy, education for 172

Demons 139

Depression 181

Depressive position 187

Descartes 149

Desirability, of outside world 153

Desire, wilfulness of 115

Desolation 13, 46

Despair 78, 89, 105, 107, 151–2, 170

by envelopment 70;

by love 78

Detachment xxxiv, 12, 146

Development xxx, 29, 98, 153, 174, 179

Devils 38, 44, 49, 140;

childish 49

Devourer, the 153–4

Dialogic, interplay 90

Dialogue 86, 87, 133–5

Diary, keeping a 4

Dichotomy, false 34

Dictatorship 135–6

Difference(s):

cessation of 159–60;

coming together of 89;

dialogue between 133;

early experiences of 101;

interplay of 101, 113, 149;

and rhythm 129;

in ways of drawing 85, 183;

see also Distinctions

Dignity, line as expressing 4

Discovery xvii, xxi, xxii, xxxix, 4, 29, 90, 158, 163, 165, 173, 176, 178, 180, 189

Discrepancy, see Gap

Disillusion 104, 149, 151;

advantages of 63;

childhood 65;

defence against 62;

meaning of 175;

as primary human predicament 66

Disparagement, of matter 37

Distance 10, 13–4

Distinctions:

in free drawings 83, 90;

mind’s tendency to make broad 100;

see also Differences

Distortion, in painting 152

Dodder Clown 99, 144

Dodge, outline as artistic 18

Dog-cat 177

Donatello xliii

Donkey 46, 52, 61, 84

Donne, John, quoted 26, 31, 133

Doodling xxii, xxiii–xxxvi, xxxix, xl, xlviii

Dove, Noah’s 23, 24, 33, 43, 136

Dramatisation, pictorial 49

Drawing, essential of good 4

Drawing(s), free xix, xxii, xxxiv, xl, 5, 8, 10, 13–14, 20, 22, 23, 24, 37, 38, 43, 44, 58, 68, 79, 80, 83, 86, 88, 90, 94, 100, 105, 108, 109, 110–22, 123–5, 127, 133, 135, 136, 138, 139, 142, 146, 149, 151, 153, 159, 161, 163, 164, 165, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 179, 181, 182, 184;

and written notes 28

Dream(s):

and actuality,

discrepancy between 101;

body 124;

concretisation of 140;

elusiveness of 9;

and perception 32–3;

and reality xlii, 35, 100, 149;

waking life as 33

Dreaming and doing, interplay of 122

Drill master 130

Drowned, becoming, in sea of pain 30

Drum, Indian 20, 24, 165

Duchess, in Alice in Wonderland xxxii, 5, 6, 190

Dunoyer de Segonzac 124

Eagle and the Cave-man 102, 103–4, 108, 191

Earth:

drawings of 20–3, 79;

light from 28–9;

solid, reality of 24

Eating xxxvi, xlvi, 47, 67–8, 70, 72, 157;

and spiritual envelopment 67

Ecstasy 181

Eden, Garden of 5;

see also Ape in Eden

Edges, see Boundaries;

play of 36

Education 78, 166;

academic 129, 142–3;

for democracy 172;

and hate 80, 166;

‘moral’ xvii;

and new way of being 165;

problem of xviii, 57;

scholastic, effects 129;

sex xvii

Effort:

conscious xviii, 83;

mental, and boundaries 18;

willed xviii, 83, 107

Egg, parrot’s 56–7, 61–2, 129, 174–7

Ego xv, xxxii, xli, 175, 181, 193

Ego development, primitive 193

Ego-entity, an illusion 166

Egoist 135

Ego-processes xiv

Ehrenzweig, A. xliv

Either-or tendency 114

Elaboration, secondary xiv

Elation 180–1

Elizabeth, Queen 74, 76, 177

Emotion(s):

communicating 111;

conveyed by space 13;

education of 128

Emptiness xv, xxxiii, 106, 121, 180

Engulfing 68;

see also Eating

Enthusiasm, vital 35

Entombment 114

Envelopment:

of body and object 129;

spiritual, of subject 66

Environment:

external and incorporated 149;

organism and, 32n, 123.;

resistance of the 160

Envy 153

Excretion 67

Experience 92;

and changing world 29;

feeling about 29;

first phase of 32;

inner xiv, 152;

repetition of 113;

sensory 16;

substance of 33;

unity of 82;

visual, fear of new aspect of 20;

wholeness of 144

Experiments 7, 27;

opposition to 20

Expression:

artistic, freedom of xiii, 7;

of mood 6, 8, 56;

of relationships 134;

symbolic xxii, 188

External world xiv, xviii, 19;

making real 79;

perception of 171;

relationship to 134;

significant reality of 32

Exuberance 118;

expression of 8

Eye:

drowned in colour 29–30;

and perspective 11;

what it likes 4, 20, 22, 27, 30, 162, 180

Eye-level 12

Fables 138–9

Facts, visual 13

Faeces 175–7, 179

Fairbairn, W.R.D. xxxviii

Fairies 37

Fairy tale 55, 95

Faithfull, Theodore xxx

Fancies, wish-fulfilling 86

Father, frightening 78

Fear 14;

child’s 58;

and colour 30;

of emotional surrender xv;

of loss of boundaries 19;

of loss of will 114;

of madness 19;

reduced by control 118

Feeling(s):

conscious 8;

dealing with tumult of 119;

life of, and works of art 187;

lost, recovery of xv;

and space 13;

and thought 165

Fenichel, O. xl

Fiat of creation 170, 178–9

Fire 24;

heath 7, 9, 24, 43, 58, 87, 93, 135

Fixation 176–7

Flatus 175

Flood 24, 30–1

Flukes 14

Focus of attention, see Attention

Folk tales 37

Follett, M. P., quoted 82–3, 90, 101, 110, 123, 132, 141–2, 148, 160

Force(s):

by which we are lived 129;

creative 121–2, 176, 178, 186;

unknown 10, 30

Fordham, M. xxxviii

Form:

and content xiv, 64;

emergence of 7;

essence of 22;

freedom in xxii;

meaning 115–16;

pleasure in beauty of 6;

surprise in xiv;

urge to 129

Forster, E.M. xxx

Frame 121, 154, 184;

protective 121

Freedom:

of creative process xxi;

of free drawings 110–22;

of line 19;

and power and law 110;

restraint of 53

Freud, Anna xxxiii, xlii, xliv, xlvii

Freud, Lucian xxxviii

Freud, S. 79n, 186, 192

Frustration 5, 53, 77

Fuller, Peter xlv

Fusion 138, 146, 153, 165;

of inner and outer 138

Future xv, 16, 31, 163

Gap xxix, 104, 121, 135, 144, 153–4, 184

Gardens 11

Gasquet, J., quoted 29

Genitality 179

Genius xiii

Gilchrist, A., quoted 15

Giorgione xlvi

God:

mathematical 97;

thought as omnipotent 164;

wrath of, wrath

Gods:

descent of 36, 140;

Greek 151

Goethe 130

Good, as ideal 36

‘Good’ pictures and persons 107

Goodness:

belief in 59, 62;

external embodiment of 35

Gordon, Cora, quoted 112

Gordon, Jan, quoted 14, 18–19, 41–2, 66–123

Gospels 190

Grace, state of 29–30, 35, 124

Grass, colour of 28, 93

Gravity 14

Greed 49, 106, 153

Greek 151

Gris, Juan 134n

Groddeck, G. xxxii

Ground, solid 23

Group, painting in 190

Grouping:

of objects 10;

and shape 14

Growth, repetition and 113

Guilt 78, 79, 155–6, 187–9

Hallucination 184;

hallucinated image 184

Hand and eye xviii, 7, 94

Happiness 7, 80

Harmonic qualities 112

Harmonies, colour xiv, 3

Hate, hatred 78, 93, 118, 150;

of controlling force 118–19;

educational method and 166;

primitive xlii, 80, 151;

primitive, transcending 80;

of self 51

Having 13

Haystack 27

Head-mistress 129

Hecate 76

History(ies) 65, 92, 98, 138–9, 149, 155, 164, 170, 189

Holmes, C. J., quoted 51

Holt 148

Hopelessness 150–1

Hopes 16, 31, 170

Horizon 20

Horror 77, 186

Hostility 144

Hourd, M. L., 166n.

Hunger 32, 35

Ibsen, H. xli

Icarus 156

Ice demon 55, 115

Id xv, 181

Id-material, spontaneous upsurge of xiv

Idea(s) 16;

association of 112;

inhibition of production 174;

preconceived 7;

unconscious xxi, xxii;

validity of 163

Ideal(s) 102;

the 34–5;

forgetting one’s 107;

and reality, gap between 104

Idealisation 174–7

Identity:

boundaries of 166;

destruction by eating 68;

loss of 95;

separate 50, 59, 92;

transcendence of 78;

variety and 113–14

Ideology, social 164

Idol 34–35

Idolatry 104

Illusion(s):

affirming 155;

analysis and 138;

in childhood 174;

and dreams 39, 138;

free drawings and 138;

necessity of 31–8;

problem of 112;

vital 35, 160

Image(s):

in dreams 86;

essential for living 161;

intuitive 144;

mental, as symbol 84, 186;

mind and 48;

role of 141–6

Imagery, verbal and non-verbal 142

Imagination 16;

and action 149;

creative 16;

and experience 33, 34;

and madness 19;

and perception,

relation between 19, 34;

and reality 89, 102;

world of 19, 30

Imaginative body 42–3, 49, 65, 78, 96, 124, 128, 167

Imaginative mind 10

Imago Group xliii, xliv

Imitations 3, 83

Immaturity 170

Immortality, of work of art 186

Impressionistic landscape 20

Impulse(s) xiv, 158;

aggressive 48;

changed 120;

to draw 6;

primitive, managing 106

Incarnation, of imagination 81–2, 130

Incorporation 150;

oral 1189

Independence, of external world 151

Indians, of New Mexico 20

Infancy, body giving of xv, 176

Infant(’s) disillusion 174

Inheritance, animal 115

Inhibition(s) xv, 174

‘In love’:

falling 25, 174;

miraculous quality of being 34

Inner and outer:

fusion of 138;

overlap xxxviii, xlv, 112

Inner world xiv, 79;

fear of 19;

insight into xv

Insides of things 16

Instinct(s) 115;

arrogant 181;

blind 35, 115, 122, 151;

stemmed by routine 115

Instructions 8, 26–7, 38

Integration 36, 90, 105;

blankness as prelude to 181;

progressive 160

Integrity 167

Intellectual approach xix

Intention 84;

conscious, surrender of xiv;

preconceived xviii, 86

Interaction, of dream and reality 102

Interplay 82, 84–6, 89, 100, 109, 122, 132, 149, 167;

creative, jealousy and 101

Interpretation, premature xiv

Interruptions 121

Intuition, and intellect 144

Invention 121, 189

Isaacs, Susan xxx, xxxiii, xlvii

Isolation 14

Janet, Pierre xxix

Jealousy 59, 62, 66, 77, 101, 178

Jones, Ernest 185, 189

Joy 125, 186

Jugs xxxvi, xxxvii, xlv, xlvii, 18, 19, 49

Khan, Masud xxxviii, xlii, xliv, xlvii

Kipling, R., quoted 74

Klein, Melanie, xxxiii, xxxvi, xlii, xlvii, 79n. 195

Knowledge:

based on images 143;

new 121

Kristeva, Julia xlv

Lady, Grey, see Parrot, Angry

Landscape 7, 112;

and colour 55;

impressionistic 20;

of inner and outer world 152;

sensory organic and idea 111;

wanting to eat 67

Langer, Susanne, 185n.

Language:

of love xv, 176;

private and public 142;

sensory organic v. thought idea 111

Learning:

academic 129;

concentration and 129

Life:

in drawing 38;

immortal 79;

richer than art 162;

spiritual, endowing objects with 49, 139

Life drawing xxxiv, 3

Light 26–8;

and consciousness 183;

meaning 10, 183

Light and dark, see Dark and light

Limitation 83, 116

Line(s) 5, 14;

freedom of 19;

horizontal 4, 12;

rigidity of xxii;

subtleties of xxii;

upright 4

‘Literary’ idea in painting 111

Living:

business of, and separation 13;

problems of xviii, 139;

relation of painting to 135

Logic xiii, 94, 143, 146;

deadness of, apart from feeling 96;

formal 188, 192–93;

primary laws of 188

Looking:

as destructive act 72;

at things, and reality 24–5;

two ways of 25

Losing xli, 13, 19, 26, 30, 57, 59, 68, 79, 102, 129

Love 170;

child’s problem, and mother 176;

destructive 76;

falling in 25, 31, 174;

and hate xlii, 93, 150;

language of xv, 176;

loss of, and disillusion 66;

of person and picture 30;

physical 35–6

Lover, the 35, 80, 155

Lunatic 80

Macbeth 54, 73

Madness 137, 162;

changing world and 29;

fear of 19, 50;

love as divine 35;

partial 137;

primary 33, 137;

and sanity, connection 38

Magic 98;

in natural objects 43

Male-female 96

Maleness 97;

and femaleness 96, 99

Marangoni, 185n.

Maritain, J., 186n., 192n.

Masaccio xlvi

arrangement 3;

boundaries of 17

Masterpiece xiii, 163

Masturbation 178–9

Matter, living, ultimate qualities of 113

Matter-of-factness 171

Maturity 162, 170

Maynard, Caroline xxiii

Maynard, Charles xxiii

Mayo, Elton xxviii

‘Me’ 134, 152, 181–2, 192–3

Meninsky, Bernard xxxiv

Me-not-me 181, 189, 192–3

Meaninglessness, of external world 35

Meanings, of drawings 143

Medium (-a) xv;

artist’s xiv, 176–7;

of drawings xx, 142;

managing one’s 107;

role of 133–40

Memory(-ies) 16, 102;

of colour 28

‘Meretricious’ drawing 135

Mess xlii, 175–6

Method, educational xvii, 166

‘Mills of God’ 95, 164

Milner, Dennis xxvii, xxxv, xlv, xlvii

Milner, Giles xlv

Milner, John xxx, xxxi, xxxv, xlvii

Milner, Quentin xlv

Mind:

absence of conscious reason from xiii;

states of, and free drawings 43

Mind-body relation 164

‘Mining Landscape’ xxii

Misgivings xvii, xviii, xix, 68

Monologue 87, 128

Monsters, xxxi, 44, 47ff., 53

Montaigne, M. xxvii

Montessori, Maria xxiv

Mood(s) 83;

‘beautiful’ 4;

expression of opposite to 9;

intensity of experience 6;

painter’s xiii, 6–9

‘Moral’ upbringing 53

Morale, illusion and 35

Morality, implanted and inherent 78

Morris, Cedric xxxviii

Mortality 157, 186

Mosaic law 95

Mother 33, 58, 71;

as independent person 176;

as whole world 134

Mother’s arms, baby and 13

Mount of Olives 76–8, 189

Mouse 46, 48, 52, 125, 127

Mouth 43, 68, 70–2, 77, 96, 179

Movement 113;

muscular, expression of 11;

quick and slow, expression 4

Muscles:

abandonment of control 175;

imaginative 123, 167;

relaxation 182

Music xxviii, 43, 111–12, 117–18, 125, 155

Mystical union 93

Mythology, Greek 151

Naming, of shapes 107

Naturalism, in painting 111

Nature:

action in 19;

art as creating 162, 189;

brooding quality of 20;

ensouling 139;

hate of 52;

inanimate 49, 134, 188;

representation of 20;

surrender to 180;

wholeness with 93

N.B.G. (drawing) 90, 92, 96, 103

Needs:

basic 13;

experience and satisfaction of 134

Negativism, affective xv

Neurotic 155

Niche, finding one’s 154

Nightmare, spatial 13

Nineteenth-century:

ideas of painting 164;

influence 111

Nipple xxxvii, 179

No-differentiation, plunge into xiii, 181

‘Nursery’ (drawing) 190

Obedience 70, 128, 182

Object(s) 4;

appearance of xvii, 180;

artist’s relation to 14;

external, as stimulus 8;

imprisonment within themselves 19;

lost, re-creation of xv, 187;

separation of 19, 26, 9;

solid 16, 19

Objectivity 62–3, 98;

scientific 98;

seduction by 135–6;

and subjectivity 148, 172

Object-love, expression of xv

Observation, clinical xv

Obstacles, to painting xiii

Oceanic feeling 180

Olympus 151

disillusion re 176

Opponents 90, 167

Opposite, see Moods

Opposition, to experiment 19–20

Orality 174

Order:

and compulsive sanity 89;

imposed and inherent 110;

non-willed 64, 83, 111, 117;

spontaneous 119;

as tyranny 56

Ordering forces, spontaneous xiv, 83

Orgasm:

genital and pregenital 149–50, 156, 175, 183;

symbolisation of 175–6

Orgiastic:

experiences, genital and pregenital xv, 175;

feelings, in creation xv

Original sin 53

‘Other’ 120–2;

first contact with 71;

reality of 37;

relationship to 134

Otherness:

art as achieving 187;

of external world 24;

tempering 161

Outline(s) 17–20, 24;

as artistic dodge 18;

non-imitative 18;

and tangible reality 19;

unrealistic 18

Out-there-ness xliv

Overlap, of inner and outer xxxviii, xlv, 112

Pailthorpe, Grace xxxv

Pain xxix, 30, 78, 96, 170, 177–8, 186

Painter:

aim of 3–4;

main preoccupation of 13;

see also Amateur painter;

Sunday-painter

Painting:

as making real 159–68;

definition 134;

from nature 72, 165;

and restitution 79

Palette, colours on 27

Palmer, Samuel 15

Parent figures:

hate of 117

Parents 49, 101, 117;

child’s phantasy re 178;

creativity of 178

Parrot, Angry, xxxvi, 58, 65, 72, 78, 96, 116, 118, 128–9, 143, 179, 181,

Passivity 175

Past 16

Patient:

analytic xiii;

anxiety in xiv;

problems of xxi;

see also Analysand

Pattern(s) 14;

and emotional effect 111;

revealed by writing down 4–5

Patterning 116

Pattern-making tendency 87

Payne, Sylvia xxxiii, xxxvii, xxxviii

Peace xxvii, 7, 8, 48, 67, 93, 159–60

Pen and ink drawings xix

Pencil drawings xix

Perception(s) 32, 165;

imagination and 19, 34;

imaginative, of action 19;

rhythm in 115;

visual xxxviii, 165

Person(s):

as facts of life, 99,;

relationship to 134;

separate, responsibility of being a 13;

truth of 16;

whole 88, 129

Personality, merging of 29

Perspective 10–11

Phantastic drawing 9, 24

Phantasy xl, 178, 187, 191

Philosopher, idealist 55

Philosophical issues xix

Piaget, Jean xxix

Picture(s):

emerging xxi;

good, mark of 183;

thinking in 142

Piero della Francesca xlvi

Planners and anti-planners 121

Planning:

conscious 110, 120, 190;

limitations of 83

Play, xxxiv, 18–19, 108, 121, 125, 145, 184, 185n. 192

Play, acted 184

Plunge xiii, xiv, xxvii, xxviii, 29–31, 35, 96, 107–8, 115, 146, 181

Poet 80, 145, 161

Poetry and prose 145

Poltergeist 70

Position, spatial 124

Possessiveness, secret 68

Posture 125

Power:

as freedom and law 110;

line as expressing 4

Powys, Llewelyn, 92n.

Predicament, human 66, 80

Presences, indefinable 34

Principle, ordering 116

Problem(s):

dominating holiday 24;

painter’s 3, 10;

splitting of 92

Process 29, 110;

acceptance of 148;

analytic xiv;

creative xiv, xviii, xxi, 164, 167, 169, 170–1, 179;

logical 189

Producer 99, 154

Progression and regression 87

Prolific, the 99, 153

Prometheus 156–7

Psalmist 183

Psycho-analysis 43–4, 48, 61, 102, 134, 136, 138, 144, 164, 173;

defence against 61;

and drawing,

compared 134;

fear of 57;

and illusion 138;

and painting 169

Psycho-analytic concepts xxi

Psycho-pathology 191

Punch, Mrs. 5, 190

Purpose 83, 101, 169

Quarrel xxxii, 5

Questions, pertinent xvii

Rage:

denial of 59;

see also Anger

Rationalism, planned 162

‘Rats in the Sacristy’ 37, 91–2, 108

Realism, in painting 20, 152

Reality:

dream and xlii, 36, 102, 108, 149;

and dream, contact 102;

feeling for 25;

of the ‘other’ 37;

particular public 144;

primary, space as 13;

psychic 79;

public 135–6, 144;

public and private 136;

shared 154;

of solid earth 24;

of surroundings xix;

tangible, outline and 19

Reason xiii;

and feeling 90, 94–6;

precarious hold on 20

Rebellion, against authority, 53ff. 56, 58, 77

Reciprocity:

Chapter IX 83–89;

method of 139;

mood of 86;

primitive 139

Record, permanent 165, 186

Re-creation:

of lost object xv, 187–8;

of the loved 79, 138;

of what is destroyed 79

Refinement 34

Reflection, visual xviii

Reformers 162

Regression xv;

fear of xv

Relationship(s):

and eating 72;

experiencing 134;

expression of 134;

failure of 136;

and imaginative body 43;

new xv;

taken into psyche 150

Relaxation:

bodily 182;

of rhythm, 182ff.

Religion 146

Remorse 78

Remoteness, of external world 24

Re-paintings 27

Repetition 32–3, 113–15, 118, 121, 124

Representation, painting as 164

Reproduction 179;

faithfulness of xx, xxi

Resistance(s) xiv, 155;

of environment 160

Responsibility:

evasion of 58;

retreat from 13

Restfulness, line as expressing 4

Restraint 53, 59, 122

Resurrection of the body 107

Reverie xxviii, xliv, 191, 193

Revolution 164

Rhythm(s) 87, 111, 129;

definition 111;

in painting 63, 110–11, 115;

primitive 182;

psycho-physical 190–1;

relaxation, 182ff.;

in scribbles 89

Rigidity, see Line

Rituals 184

Roof 27

Routine, deadening 114

Rules 3, 106–8;

reliance on 68

Saliva 175

Salome 51

Samenesses, interplay of 113

Sanity 162;

apparent 135;

deceptive 89;

precarious hold on 20;

see also Madness

Santayana, G., xlv,

quoted 32, 33, 35, 36, 98

Saunders, Cecily xxxviii

Scale, musical 155

Scene, dramatic 9

School(s) xxiv;

art 121;

obedience at 127;

painting at 3

Science 143;

discovery in 189;

life before 98

Scott, Clifford xxxviii, xli

Scribble, scribbling xiv, 5, 7, 8, 9, 22, 59, 76, 84, 86–9, 135

Sculpture, good 184

Search 13

Sea-wall 20, 22, 24, 112

Secondary process xiii

Seed-pod, bursting xxxi, 167–8

Seer and seen, fusion 188

Self 145;

boundaries of 29, 190;

hate and fear of 51;

one and the other 29;

and other, distinction 65;

sense of, xviii, 165, 166, 179ff., 190

Self-consciousness 180;

dawning 92

Self-expression xiii, 153

Self-knowledge, accepting 106

Self-observation xiv

Self-punishment 51

Sense:

common, see Common sense;

uncommon 13

Senses, and truth 16

Separateness 15, 92;

of ‘lives’ 70;

necessary, of loved object 78;

of objects 15;

between subject and object 62;

transcendence of 166

Separation:

avoiding 76;

disillusion through 66;

from loved object 15

Sermons xxvi, 95, 120

Serpent 5, 46, 59, 62, 92

Sexual experience 36

Shade, see Dark and light Shadow:

and nature 18;

outline and 18;

and tiger 18

Shakespeare, W., quoted 17

Shape(s) xiv, 150, 152;

recognition of 89;

spectator and 14;

see also Form

Shrines, of gods and devils 38, 44

Sight, sense of 11

Significance:

failures of 80;

form needed for 116;

of forms of imagination 33

Situation, human 15, 62, 142, 151

Siva, dancing 179

Skeleton under the Sea 54–5, 76

Sketching xxiii, 3, 12

Skin, as boundary 166

Sky, and light 27

Sleep:

dreams and 184;

infant’s 181

Snake xl, 5, 20

Snapshot 16

Social structure, finding one’s place in 154

Solidity 10, 49

‘Soul’ 139

Sounds xiv, 111, 113, 152

Space 13–14;

feelings conveyed by 13;

frames and 184;

imaginative body and 43;

infinite, nightmare of 13;

and object-relation 43;

as primary reality 13

Spectator 14, 51

Speed, Harold, quoted 17, 111

Spencer, Stanley 107

Spender, Stephen xxxi

Sphincters:

control of 175;

release of 183

Spiral 117

Spirit, brooding 23

Spirits, in pantheon 35

Split:

between inner and outer 165;

mind-body xiv;

restored through arts 151

Splitting 100, 115;

of problems 92

Spontaneity, child’s defence of 181

Spontaneous ordering forces xiv, 83;

see also Order

Spreading, see Body

Squiggle Foundation xlvii

Standards, preconceived xviii

Statements, pictorial and verbal 142

Stevenson, R.L. xxx

Still-life 26

Stillness, active 108

Stimulus:

feeling as 8;

and response 82, 123

Stokes, Adrian, xxxvi, xlii, xliii, xliv, 187n.

Storm(s) xlvi, 8, 20, 24, 56–8, 65, 76–7, 165, 177

‘Story’ in drawing 9, 45, 57

Streams 28, 33, 37, 46, 62, 169

Strife and peace 159

Struggle, contemporary social 164

Study 10

Subject:

envelopment of, in art 66;

and object 32, 62, 80, 82, 108, 148, 151, 153, 160, 188

Subjective and objective, difference 32, 65, 80, 151

Submergence, in nature 92–3

Sucking 46, 91, 182

Suffering, acceptance of 78, 96

Suicide 117

Sun xxvii, 30, 66, 89, 91, 95, 116–17, 130, 133, 156, 177, 182

Sunday-painter xiii, 108, 156

Sunlight, tiger and 18, 56, 151

Super-ego 181

Supernatural, the xxxi, 163

Surface xxxvi, 8, 21, 51, 180, 185

Surprise xiv, 49, 165, 190

Surrealism xxxv, 9, 70

Surrender:

blissful xv, 175–6;

of conscious planning 190;

emotional, fear of xv;

swing 115

Symbol(s) 161;

of external conditions, dream as 32–3;

old and new 189;

psychic creativeness and 173;

use of term, 184n.;

vitality and 51;

work of art as 166

Symbol formation, 173, 174, 181n.

Symbolisation 185

Sympathy, mental 41

Symptoms 192

Table, 11, 18, 49, 95,

Tao Te Ching 180, 190

Task, painter’s 10

Teacher, xxi, xxvi, xxxi, xxxiv, 120, 127, 166n., 170

Teaching, moral, role of xviii

Technique of drawings xviii

Teeth 43, 49, 68, 70, 72

Tempest, see Storm

Tenderness, for nature 51–2

Tension, muscular 183

Texture 145, 165

Therapeutic work xiii

Therapy, analytic, and art xv

Thinking:

logical 99;

logical and intuitive 144;

non-logical, and orgasm 183;

two kinds, 188ff.

Thompson, Francis 156

Thomson, Martina xlviii

Thought 34;

non-logical 189–90;

as omnipotent xxxv, 164

Thoughts and things, difference 32, 62, 98

Thunder bird 20, 24

Thunder over the Sea 165

Thusness xxvii, 109, 165

Tide 24, 140

Tiger 18

Time 155–6;

lack of correspondence 137

Timelessness 186

‘Together, being’ 10–16

Togetherness 136;

of objects 15

Tones, and nature 18

Touch, sense of, expression 11

Tracing xx, xxi

Traherne, T. 179;

quoted 40–1, 66, 107, 138, 141

Transfiguration 25, 31, 34, 42, 108, 171, 174, 186;

of external world 31

Truth, seeing 16

Turning-point in life xviii

Twilight 29

Types xix, xxix, 151

Tyranny, authority as 56

Uncertainty xiv, 89

Unconscious (mind) xiii, xiv;

ideas xxi, xxii;

irruptions from xviii

Underworld 151

Undifferentiated state, regression to xv

Unfree drawings xxii

Union, sense of 166

Unknown, terror of xiv

Unreason 161

Up-ness and down-ness 124

Urine 175

Usefulness 25, 111, 164

Values, in life and in painting 10

van Gogh, V. 190

Vanishing point 11, 13

Variety 19, 36, 125, 164

Verbalisation xiv, 182

Victory, of mind over matter 36–7

Viewpoint 12;

birthright of unique 58

Village, and haystack 27

Vision:

artistic 14;

phenomena of, and outline 17;

public and private 136

Vitality xxi, xxix, 21, 41, 51, 67, 181

Vivante, L., 185n., 186n.

Vomit 175

Vowels 145

Waiting xxxii, 29, 108, 125, 181, 190

Wall paintings 184

Walsby, Harold, xxii, 188n.

‘Wandering thoughts’ 144

Watching capacity of mind 104, 106

Water-colour drawings xix

Waves xxx, 20–1, 23, 37, 56, 116, 119

Ways of being, male and female 99

Weather:

internal 151;

in the soul 130

Weight 112, 165;

support of 11

Weininger, Otto xxxiii

Whole(s) 80, 113;

combination into 16;

ordered 83;

persons as 89;

recognisable xiii, 89

Wholeness:

dreams and 102;

of picture and person 129

Wilfulness 115, 128;

childhood 58

Will:

fear of loss of 114;

function of, in creative activity 121;

hand, and eye 94;

throwing away 115

Will-power, xviii, 83, 120–21

Winnicott, Alice xxxvii

Winnicott, D.W. xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xlvii, xlviii

Wish:

and aesthetic experience 152;

and event, distinction 65;

magical fulfilment of 77

Witch(es) 45, 73, 98, 179

Woolf, Virginia xxviii, xxxi

Words 29;

abstract 96–7;

as part of picture 87–8;

thinking in xiv, 142

Wordsworth, W., 185 n.

Work:

internal 87;

original, in painting 14

World:

common sense, sensory foundation 13;

common sense view of 25;

and dream imaginings 24;

external, see External world;

of fact, outline and 19;

fear of unaccustomed view of 25;

inner, see Inner world;

old 153;

public and private 135;

reality of 67;

remoteness of 24;

transfigured, as real 163