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Psychoanalysis and creative living.

Jeffrey B Rubin

    The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
    |July 18, 2003
    PubMed
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    Psychoanalysis can help overcome creative blocks but risks stifling art if it over-interprets. This work explores fostering creative living by navigating psychoanalysis

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychoanalysis
    • Psychology
    • Arts and Humanities

    Background:

    • Psychoanalysis holds an ambivalent stance towards creativity and its own creative potential.
    • It offers resources for understanding obstacles to creative living, defined as a fresh, vital, and evolving way of being.
    • However, premature interpretation by psychoanalysis can lead to the psychological colonization of art.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the tension between psychoanalysis' creative and potentially perverse possibilities.
    • To elucidate how psychoanalysis can foster creative living.
    • To examine the dynamic between psychoanalytic interpretation and artistic creation.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptual analysis of psychoanalytic theory in relation to creativity.

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    • Main Results:

    • Psychoanalysis can illuminate barriers to creativity.
    • An overly interpretive psychoanalytic approach risks impoverishing both art and the psychoanalytic field.
    • The potential for psychoanalysis to either enable or colonize creative expression is highlighted.

    Conclusions:

    • Psychoanalysis must navigate its ambivalence towards creativity to foster genuine creative living.
    • Avoiding premature interpretation is key to preserving the novelty and richness of artistic expression.
    • The paper proposes a path for psychoanalysis to constructively engage with and support creativity.