Volume 19, Number 10 · December 14, 1972
Being "Creative"
By D.W. Harding
The Dynamics of Creation
by Anthony Storr
Atheneum, 248 pp., $7.95
Psychoanalysts writing on creativity have commonly tried to answer two different questions, not always distinguishing between them. The first concerns the function that creative work fulfills for a given person, or type of person, and here the concepts and materials of psychoanalysis and psychopathology have undoubtedly been useful. The other question is how it comes about that creative work, especially in the arts, is one of the human possibilities, a characteristic activity of the species.
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