Creative CharactersIn Creative Characters, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. |
Contents
One Characterology and Creativity | 17 |
Two Creative Characters on Their Characters | 35 |
Three Comparative CharacterIdeals | 59 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
achievement activity adolescence anal appear Aristotle artist associated become biographical called Chapter character character-ideal characteristic characterology child common complex considered creative cultural Darwin depression desire divine early erotic example experience father feeling felt female feminine figure follow Freud genius give hand human idea ideal imagined important individual inspiration intellectual internal kind later less libidinal live male masculine matter means mental mind mother narcissistic nature never noted object obsessional oral organization parental particularly period person Plato pleasure poem poets political possible present psychic psychoanalytic psychology question reason reflect relation seems sense sexual social society sort speak specific spiritual stage story structure sublimation superego theory things thought tion traits turn typical unconscious University whole wishes woman women writing