For want of ambiguity : order and chaos in art psychoanalysis and neuroscience For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art. Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo Ai Weiwei Ida Barbarigo Xavier Le Roy Bill T. Jones Cindy Sherman Francis Bacon Agnes Martin and others For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being. Bloomsbury Publishing Introduction : (re) making meaning Shaping private demons A play of selves : art as play Narrating the self Mapping : the need for borders The fluidity of time and space in art psychoanalysis and neuroscience Resisting representation Conclusion : order and chaos or framing ambiguity.