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For Want of Ambiguity is an extraordinarily difficult work. This difficulty is rooted in the book's uniqueness: it draws from neuroscience, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and contemporary art, and readers can find themselves quickly lost amid references to Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte on the one hand and recent work in neuroanatomy on the other. Authors Lumer (independent scholar) and Oppenheim (Montclair State Univ.) are trained in psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and literary theory, and they are to be congratulated on crafting such an original, wide-ranging work. The aim of the book is to bring neuroscience and psychoanalysis to bear on questions of aesthetic theory, and vice versa; the discussion orients itself in terms of two poles, chaos and order. The book contains six chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion. It will reward careful reading but mystify those who do not read it carefully; it is not for dabblers or the faint of heart. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers and faculty.