Transference onto the analyst is itself a kind of neurosis, but one in the service of an ultimate working through of the conflicting feelings it expresses.
It's supposed to be the ultimate work chair — "a new sitting experience," the company asserts.
But they are both mocked by an elderly painter who despises everyone else's efforts, because he is painting the ultimate work of art: a nude so consummate it exceeds every other painting in history.
It is like a history of film for our ADD times, or the greatest movie trailer ever made, as well as the ultimate work of appropriation art, a genre that owes so much to the movies.
The ultimate work, The Lay of the Land, however, was the least-well received.
Roberta Smith, of the Times, called "The Clock" the "ultimate work of appropriation art".
But I believe the human body is the ultimate work of art.
(For the record, he establishes persuasively that Kaufman's death was the real thing and not, as some wishful thinkers still suspect, his ultimate work of performance art).
As many have noted, Paris is the ultimate work of French art, the best example of harmonious ideals in architecture on a grand scale the world has ever seen.
Indeed, in his essay "Contre Sanothereuve," another precursor to his ultimate work, "Proust said that the man does not explain the work, he is not the same man who writes the work".
