Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old StereotypesJohns Hopkins University Press, 1. sep. 1990 - 208 strani Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings. |
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... sense of comple- tion - a signal that the poem is finished or virtually so . These discov- eries function to reduce and resolve a good deal of the tension and anxiety that were connected with starting and working on the poem ( even when ...
... sense that he could make himself anew ; he could mold himself totally into a person he wants to be . In the face of ... sense , the production of anything radically new always involves destruction of the old . Art involves nullifying the ...
... sense of freedom , we resort to attempts at control . These attempts , whether they are aimed at overpowering death by choosing our own time to die or at harnessing destructive feelings - overwhelming destructive feelings are almost ...
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Inspiration and the Creative Process | 38 |
The Mystique of the Unconscious and Creativity | 48 |
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Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes Albert Rothenberg Predogled ni na voljo - 1994 |