Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala
Online published on 11 August, 2014.
The creative ability has distinguished the human race from other beings in their struggle for survival. "The secret of creativeness," is an abstraction that has tempted many great minds into building theoretical structures that try to explain the creative process, but fail to do so for a majority of creative artists (Jung, 1933). The core psychoanalytic viewpoints include different approaches towards creativity. Freud (1908) correlated the general representative view about the psyche of a man with the process of creativity. He argued that work of art arises from the pathological condition similar to neurosis hence creativity reflects the pathological condition of an artist. The repressed wishes and desires, in his views, were the driving force behind the genius and every art work is a sort of release of the later (Arieti, 1976). Freud opined that only unhappy people experience fantasies and daydreaming and their unsatisfied wishes play an integral part in the creative process. An art gesture as described by Freud's psychoanalytic view depicts the sexual or heroic schema of an artist.
