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Creativity and encounter

Creativity and encounter 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Creativity and encounter

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 24 (1): 5 – Mar 1, 1964

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1964 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01873305
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Abstract

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

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 1964

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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