Table of Contents

Part I. The Analytic Frame. 1. The Location of Cultural Experience - D.W. WINNICOTT. 2. The Role of Illusion in Symbol Formation - MARION MILNER. 3. The Aesthetic Moment and the Search for Transformation - CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS. 4. Where is Literature? - MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ. 5. Poetry in Psychoanalysis: Hopkins, Rossetti, Winnicott - ALBERT D. HUTTER. 6. Ghost Writing: A Meditation on Literary Criticism as Narrative - MADELON SPRENGNETHER. Part II. Literary Objects. 7. Phantasmagoric Macbeth - DAVID WILLBERN. 8. Thomas Traherne and the Poetics of Object Relations - ANTOINETTE B. DAUBER. 9. Wordsworth and Winnicott in the Area of Play - JOHN TURNER. 10. Lawrence's False Solution - DAVID HOLBROOK. 11. Frost, Winnicott, Burke - RICHARD POIRIER. 12. Samuel Beckett's Relationship to His Mother-Tongue - PATRICK J. CASEMENT. Part III. Cultural Fields . 13. Jesus and Object-Use: A Winnicottian Account of the Resurrection Myth - BROOKE HOPKINS. 14. Picturing the Child's Inner World of Fantasy: On the Dialectic between Image and Word - ELLEN HANDLER SPITZ. 15. Gender and Voice in Transitional Phenomena - CLAIRE KAHANE. 16. From the Clinic to the Classroom: D. W. Winnicott, James Britton, and the Revolution in Writing Theory - ANNE M. WYATT-BROWN.