ABSTRACT

Hanna Segal is best known internationally for her work on symbolisation. This work is part of a lifelong endeavour to explore the intricate relationship between creative and psychotic functioning. Here, in her sixth book and third collection of writings, she pursues this study through current thoughts on the nature of dreaming, to new ideas about vision and disillusionment, models of the mind and the two principles of mental functioning. Her long interest in factors affecting war is pursued in her examination of the psychotic factors, symbolic significance and psychological impact of the events of September 11 and the following war on Iraq.