Freud's writing on art -- Ernest Jones and the psychoanalytic interpretation of Hamlet -- Hanns Sachs: The creative act -- Ernst Kris: Ego psychology and art -- Van Wyck Brooks versus Mark Twain versus Samuel Clemens -- Joseph Wood Krutch: Poe's art as an abnormal condition of the nerves -- Ludwig Lewisohn and the puritan inhibition of American literature --Edmund Wilson and psychoanalysis in historical criticism -- Kenneth Burke's terminological medium of exchange -- Lionel Trilling's creative extension of Freudian concepts