ABSTRACT
"During the last twenty years I have found that whenever I had the sense of profound contemplation, a relationship was my object; and this relationship the one between all compulsive stirring in man and the outside world he inhabits," Adrian Stokes wrote in summarising notes he had made about the outer and inner life. Instead Stokes included themes from this essay, and from notes he had made about the outer and inner life, in completing his quattrocento trilogy with a book about Venice. By then Stokes had also used Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic ideas about the importance of "trust" in an inner image of the mother as a good figure within the mind. After incorporating this article in the first part of Inside Out, Stokes turned in the book's second part to Cezanne. He went on to use notes he had made during his psychoanalytic treatment by Klein in writing the first part of his next book, Inside Out.
