ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to establish the term "passion" as a specific response to aesthetic objects: as a qualitatively distinct consortium of Love, Hate and knowing with philistinism, which is therefore subject to very specific forms of attack by negative links. One need hardly document the virulence with which the anti-aesthetic forces in the mind, as in the culture, mount their attacks on aesthetic objects and aesthetic experience. Psychoanalytical contributions to any theory or inspiration and creativity must be derived from experience of the analytical process. Consequently the conflicts over the feeding breast, while recognized as structured in terms of the outside versus the inside of the object, were viewed mainly from the point of view of greed, envy, and possessive jealousy. Distrust of the analyst and of the analytic method introduced a certain reserve and tentativeness into his open and enthusiastic participation, as a certain loneliness and restless sense of inertia suffused his daily life.
