The Enigmatic Relationship of Creativity to Mental Health and Psychopathology
Abstract
Creativity has long enjoyed a privileged position in psycho-analytic thinking as being intimately associated with mental health generally and with the successful sublimation and neutralization of the instinctual drives and affects specifically. Moreover, the concept of creativity is used in a variety of ways in the clinical setting without careful consideration about its standards, aesthetic requirements, and the structural rules which determine and govern it.
This contribution aims to explore these issues. Further, it hypothesizes that creativity constitutes an entity that may often be independent of character development and may be the servant of persons suffering from perverse, borderline, manic-depressive, or even other primitive mental states.
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