ABSTRACT
The study Deleuze dedicates to the works of Proust adds a new dimension when it stresses that childhood experience that has become a work was already poetic emotional experience in childhood, tinted by that child’s special sensitivity concerning the relations and contents of human experience. Many artists have investigated their arts, examining their conditions, materials, processes, and results. Gedo and Goldberg, following theoretical proposals by Eissler, consider it necessary to incorporate a "principle of creation" into Freudian metapsychology. Neurosis fears chaos and avoids or paralyses it, whereas creative work in psychoanalysis, as well as in art, seeks it out and goes forth to meet it. Art and psychoanalysis both seek to generate a fabric in which the pulsating movement of life encounters forms to lodge it and to open free channels with renewed impetus.
