Is there a hereditary disposition to creativity? -- The disinhibition of cortical control -- Psychological characteristics -- Creativity and drugs -- Anxiety and depersonalisation -- Psychotic experiences -- Affective disorders -- The emergence of the unconscious -- Perversion and artistic creativity -- The uncanny -- Narcissistic traumas -- Alterations of the image of the body -- Grief -- Non-conformism, dandyism and decadentism -- Avant-garde -- Postmodernism -- Obscenity and pornography -- Art as therapy