Volney Gay is professor of religion, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and is a training analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of six other books, including Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations; Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis; and Reading Jung: Science, Psychology, and Religion.

An interdisciplinary book that itself serves as an eloquent example of why the humanities are priceless... Essential. Choice

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Answer 2. Magnification and Cultural Objects 3. Back to Freud, Back to the Greeks! 4. Seven of Nine and Five of Nine 5. Canals on Mars: Exploring Imaginary Worlds 6. Searching for Essences: Freud and Wittgenstein 7. High Art and the Power to Guess the Unseen from the Seen Notes Index

Volney Gay is professor of religion, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and is a training analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of six other books, including Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations; Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis; and Reading Jung: Science, Psychology, and Religion.

An interdisciplinary book that itself serves as an eloquent example of why the humanities are priceless... Essential. Choice

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Answer 2. Magnification and Cultural Objects 3. Back to Freud, Back to the Greeks! 4. Seven of Nine and Five of Nine 5. Canals on Mars: Exploring Imaginary Worlds 6. Searching for Essences: Freud and Wittgenstein 7. High Art and the Power to Guess the Unseen from the Seen Notes Index

Volney Gay is professor of religion, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and is a training analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of six other books, including Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations; Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis; and Reading Jung: Science, Psychology, and Religion.

An interdisciplinary book that itself serves as an eloquent example of why the humanities are priceless... Essential. Choice

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Answer 2. Magnification and Cultural Objects 3. Back to Freud, Back to the Greeks! 4. Seven of Nine and Five of Nine 5. Canals on Mars: Exploring Imaginary Worlds 6. Searching for Essences: Freud and Wittgenstein 7. High Art and the Power to Guess the Unseen from the Seen Notes Index