Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / David H. Rosen
  • Introduction: Onward and upward? / Christian Gaillard
  • From the analyst's consulting room to prehistoric caves
  • An encounter in Herculaneum
  • Whatever happened to paradise?
  • From Durer to Cranach: melancholy in black and red
  • Narcissus crouching: from Ovid to Caravaggio
  • Who the heck is Bluebeard? The nineteenth century grapples with an ogre
  • A contemporary Bluebeard story
  • Jackson Pollock on the brink of the well: the challenge of figuration
  • Conclusion: Vessels are broken and a book opens
  • Notes.