The Nature of the Creative Process in Art A Psychological Study
No single factor determined the growth of this book. It may have been that as a novice researcher in Behavioral Psychology I experienced growing discontent with the direction of intellectual activity in which the accent was on methodology and measurement, with a distinct atmosphere of dogmatism, ins...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1968, 1968
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Table of Contents:
- I. Reality, Appearance, and the Creative Disposition
- Conventional Reality and Mental Organization
- Categorical, Collective, and Created Reality
- Evocative Function and Created Reality
- Contemplated Reality and Creative Appearance
- II. On the Conscious and the Unconscious
- Some basic properties of Consciousness
- The first two levels of organization: Pure experiences and Verballabels
- Freud’s basic approaches to the Conscious and Unconscious
- The origins of Emotionally charged Ideas and Repressive Functions
- III. On the Preconscious
- The “Pre-experiential” stage of Mental Organization
- An aspect of Preconscious: a Tacit Cognition
- The Problem of Double Significance: Articulated and Non-articulated elements
- The Origin of Poesis: Emotion and Preconscious
- IV. Some common Origins of Symbolic Functions and the Organization of Dreams
- Sleep, Dream and its Interpretation
- Censorship, Latent and Manifest Dream Work
- Archetypes and the Oedipus Myth
- The Dionysian and the Apollonian principles
- VIII. The Theory of Modes I: The Structure of Creative Intention and its Relation to Various Aspects of Mental Economy
- Introduction: On the Nature of Illusion
- Some Basic aspects of Intentionality
- Freud’s approaches to Creative Intentionality
- A further approach to the same problem
- The Reduction of Expenditure of Neural Energies
- Novelty and the Comic
- Creative Set and Curiosity
- Economy of Mental Expenditure as it relates to the Creative Process
- The Problem of Condensation
- Condensation and Emotion
- Conclusion about Intentionality and Condensation
- Regression and Mental Economy
- Childhood, Adolescent and Mature Imagination as it relates to Regression
- IX. The Theory of Modes II: The Tragic as Mental Function
- Three types of The Tragic
- Functions of Fantasy related to the Tragic
- The Relationship of Sublimation to the Tragic
- The Problem of the Uncanny
- Symbol and Dream: Regressive and Progressive Processes
- The Dream as a Symbolic Narrative
- The Relation between Dream-work and Symbol-work
- Integration and Conclusion
- V. On Imagination and Symbolic Functions
- A Variety of Imaginative Functions
- Imaginative Inference
- Some Neuro-psychological Problems of Imagination
- Some Relations between Symbol and Imagination
- Ambiguity related to Imagination
- The Subjective and Radical Ambiguity of Imagination
- The Communicative Symbol, the Creative Symbol and the Contemplated Image
- Levels of Reaction to the Contemplated Image in Receiving Minds
- VI. On Style
- Inner disposition of style
- Overt stylistic expression
- Approaches to the history of art
- VII. Oedipus, Culture and Creativity
- General Orientation
- The Oedipus complex: Mental economy and Myth
- Creativity versus Neurosis
- ThePleasure and Reality Principles in Interaction: Neurosis and Culture
- Culture and Neurosis: The Father complex