This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view focusing on understanding the psychoemotional dynamics underlying artistic creative activities such as theatre literature and painting. Throughout Delgado considers these works of art through a Bionian Kleinian and Freudian lens. He uses three major psychoanalytic models of the creative process two of them classic: the first Freudian based on the theory of conflict between impulse and defense the result of the effort to manage an excessive drive activity and in which the concept of sublimation is central; the second Kleinian based on the attachment theory in which creative effort corresponds to an attempt to repair the damage done to the object or to the self; and the third more recent affiliated with the more expanded attachment relationship theory based on W. Bion’s theory of thinking and emphasizing the continent’s capacity for psyche and the oscillation between schizo-paranoid and depressive positions. With illustrations throughout this book will be vital reading for anyone interested in the intersection of creativity the Arts and psychoanalysis. |Psychoanalysis and the Act of Artistic Creation A Look at the Unconscious Dynamics of Creativity | Mental Health
