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ROLLO MAY N THIS PAPER I shall not use our usual sions with artists and poets themselves. I The theory is: Creativity occurs in an psychological language. I am not in- clined ,to apologize for this since I believe act of encounter, and is to be understood that most of our approaches `to creativity with this encounter as its center. in psychology have been strikingly inade- Cezanne sees a tree. He sees it in a quate. Essentially we 'have come up way no one else has ever seen it. He ex- with what the artists and poets smile periences, as he no doubt would say, a at and say, "Interesting, yes. But it has "being grasped" by the tree. The paint- next to nothing to do with what is ac- ing that issues out of this encounter be- tually going on within me in the crea- tween a person, Cezanne, and an ob- tive act." There have been notable ex- jective reality, the tree, is literally new. ceptions to this tendency, of course: the Something is born, comes into being, works of MacKinnon, Frank Barton, something which did not exist before-- Crutchfield and Harold Anderson, for which is as
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Mar 1, 1964
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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