Foreword / David H. Rosen -- Introduction: Onward and upward? / Christian Gaillard -- From the analyst's consulting room to prehistoric caves -- An encounter in Herculaneum -- Whatever happened to paradise? -- From Durer to Cranach: melancholy in black and red -- Narcissus crouching: from Ovid to Caravaggio -- Who the heck is Bluebeard? The nineteenth century grapples with an ogre -- A contemporary Bluebeard story -- Jackson Pollock on the brink of the well: the challenge of figuration -- Conclusion: Vessels are broken and a book opens -- Notes