ABSTRACT
How may the psychoanalytic view be used to deepen our understanding of art? Some analysts have interested themselves in creativity itself and the process whereby contents of the artist's mind transformed into a work of art. Here the psychoanalyst may profit from the comparison between fantasy expressed as symptom and fantasy expressed as art. Of course, despite its resemblances to a neurotic symptom or a dream, the work of art is different: it is a formed communication, addressed to an audience who responds aesthetically.
