The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art and Violence

By Donald Meltzer & Meg Harris Williams

Published by The Clunie Press for The Roland Harris Trust Library No. 14

"The fundamental thesis of aesthetic conflict over the obtrusive outside and the enigmatic inside of the object is traced into various dimensions: development of the personality, violence as an interpersonal and social phenomenon and art as an active and receptive undertaking.  While it is, from the clinical sense, a sequel to 'Studies in Extended Metapsychology', it also goes some distance towards uniting the Kleinian source with its later tributaries, thus mapping out a current of clinical and theoretical progress that is certainly accelerating."