This book shows how psychoanalytic concepts illuminate aesthetic work to inform and extend the production of models of understanding the mind.

Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Besides his numerous psychoanalytic writings, Kohon has published four books of poetry in Spanish, and his novel Red Parrot, Wooden Leg was finalist for the Fernando Lara Prize, Planeta, Barcelona. His next book, Truco Gallo, is a collection of short stories (also in Spanish, co-authored with Mario Flecha and Viqui Rosenberg).

Griffiths, Foreword. Kohon, Acknowledgements. Considering the Uncanny. Louise Bourgeois and Franz Kafka: Of Lairs and Burrows. Kafka Meets Borges: From Geography to Temporality. Juan Muñoz and Anish Kapoor: Of Drums, Double Binds and Non-Objects. From Churches to Sculptures: The Matter of Time and the Work of Richard Serra. Edvard Munch's vampires: The Effects of Nachträglichkeit. Monuments and Counter-Monuments: Willy Brandt in Front of the Past in Warsaw. The Broken Sequence of the Aesthetic: The Work of the Negative.