Preface

BOOK ONE: CONTROLLING THE WORLD

Part I: Order in Chaos
1. The Child's Vision of the World
2. The Two Kinds of Attention
3. Unconscious Scanning

Part II: Creative Conflict
4. The Fertile Motif and the Happy Accident
5. The Fragmentation of 'Modern Art'
6. The Inner Fabric

Part III: Teaching Creativity
7. The Three Phases of Creativity
8. Enveloping Pictorial Space
9. Abstraction
10. Training Spontaneity through the Intellect

BOOK TWO: STIRRING THE IMAGINATION

Part IV: The Theme of the Dying God
11. The Minimum Content of Art
12. The Self-Creating God
13. The Scattered and Buried God
14. The Devoured and Burned God

Part V: Theoretical Conclusions
15. Towards a Revision of Current Theory
16. Ego Dissociation

Appendix: Glossary
References
Index