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The Origins and Psychodynamics of Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Based on interviews with artists and on personal clinical psychoanalytic work with them, examines creativity through the major themes of art as communication, the analogy between the created and creating and the dream and dreaming, and the importance of differentiating ambiguity from condensation. Focuses on the plastic arts but finds principles applicable to all artists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1997

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