Acknowledgments
Introduction
Art and Public Morality
An Ordered and Safeguarded Universe
Freud and the Problem of Sublimation
1. Art and the Organization of the Self
Similarities and Differences: Symptoms and Work of Art
Psychoanalysis and Psychic Pain
Freud's Solution: Recollecting Libido Theory
The Argument in Brief: Art and Self-Organization
2. Freud and the Location of Values
The Location of Values and Aesthetics
Sublimation and Aesthetics
The Official Theory of Perception
3. Sublimation and the Mystery of Transformation
Dualism and Antinomies in Freud's Thought
The Problem of Quality Returns: Infantile Sexual Aims
Sublimation and the Transformation of Energy
4. Origins of Complex Behavior and Sublimation
Complex Behavior and Evolution
The Structure of Objects, The Structure of Representations
Responding to Art: Iconic Representations
Self-Understanding and Self-Represenations: Emotional Struggles, Logical Quandaries
5. Perception and Emotion in Classical Theory and Contemporary Authors
Theories of Perception
Helmholtz and the Physiology of Perception
Perceptions, Qualities, and Affordances
Contemporary Authors and The Theory of Affordances: Weiss, Langs, Stern
6. From Visual Affordances to Emotional Affordances
Anal Qualities, Anal Character, Sublimation
Visual Affordances as a Model of Emotional Affordances
Emotional Affordances and the Drives
From Aesthetics to Sublimation
Emotional Affordances vs. Representations: The Structure of the Inner World
Vivual Affordances, Empathy and Art
7. Emotional Affordances and Their Representations
Introduction: Invisible Losses, Visible Repairs
Astonishment in John Cheever
Emotional Affordances in a Japanese Novel
The Smelly Father in Hamlet
Sublimation and Perversions in Citizen Kane
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index