358 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Approaches to Art. 2. The Image of the Artist -- Pt. 2. The Art of the Insane. 3. Comments on Spontaneous Artistic Creations by Psychotics. App. A Psychotic Artist of the Middle Ages. 4. A Psychotic Sculptor of the Eighteenth Century. 5. The Function of Drawings and the Meaning of the "Creative Spell" in a Schizophrenic Artist / Ernst Kris and Else Pappenheim -- Pt. 3. The Comic. 6. The Psychology of Caricature. 7. The Principles of Caricature / Ernst Kris and E. H. Gombrich. 8. Ego Development and the Comic. 9. Laughter as an Expressive Process: Contributions to the Psychoanalysis of Expressive Behavior -- Pt. 4. Problems of Literary Criticism. 10. Aesthetic Ambiguity / Ernst Kris and Abraham Kaplan. 11. Freudianism and the Literary Mind. 12. Prince Hal's Conflict -- Pt. 5. Psychology of Creative Processes. 13. On Inspiration. 14. On Preconscious Mental Processes
