Introduction

Psychoanalytically-based psychotherapy has quite an extensive central area. People in the central area may quarrel about their central ideas; they tend to agree on what is just too eccentric and is to be regarded with reserve and suspicion. Nathan Field offers suggestions towards unification, starting from some reflections on the nature and boundaries of what many call "the self". The chapter explains interesting records from the Dark and Middle Ages, some of whose best minds tried to reconcile music, mathematics, astrology, astronomy, theology, architecture, and assorted trimmings, into one coherent field-theory. Field starts with Sigmund Freud's well-known dictum that the goal of psychoanalysis is to effect a shift from the dominance of the Id to the dominance of the Ego. The use of the concept of "aesthetic experience", which has its roots in a hypothetical event in early ineffable moments, does away with the concept of a fourth dimension by incorporating certain experiences into the three dimensions.