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The Nature of the Creative Process in Art - A Psychological Study (Paperback, 1968)
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The Nature of the Creative Process in Art - A Psychological Study (Paperback, 1968)
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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, insecurity and
defensiveness. The anathema of tender-mindedness was attached to
any study of mental manifes tations that avoided laboratory
confirmation and statistical significance. Man in his uniqueness
and unpredictable potentialities remained un explored. Yet outside
the systematic vivisection of variables and their measurement men
of originality and genius were studying the mind in its complex yet
natural interaction of aspirations, values and creative capacities.
It was almost too easy for me to turn to them for the re
orientation of my psychological interest, and it was not difficult
to find in Freud the most daring and penetrating representant of
humanistic psychology. Furthermore, it could have been the fact
that Freud's thoughts on creative processes appeared to me at once
starkly original and yet incomplete and fragmentary, that led me to
reconsider and expand on them. Freud's fascination with culture and
creativity, although frank and serious, led him to a peculiar
indecisiveness and overcautiousness which was radically different
from the dramatic boldness of his thera peutic methods and the
depth of his personality theories."
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