ABSTRACT
The aesthetic object governs the tensions of the aesthetic conflict in relation to the three cognitive vertices of science, art, and religion, and holds them in balance while a symbol is being produced to contain the specific meaning of the emotional situation under scrutiny. In the psychoanalytic situation, the boundaries of the container are “drawn by selective attention” providing a space of “privacy not secrecy, solipsism or isolation”, a space demarcated in response to the aegis of the creative combined object. The emotional situation of the caesura can be seen to differ from the transitional space or playspace theory of creativity owing to its turbulence. Poets in all fields have always feared the loss of inspiration, “drying up”, more than they fear neglect, ridicule, or penury; more than anything, except perhaps torture and imprisonment, which is their reward in the most repressive societies.
