Creativity: Definitions

Creativity: Definitions 1) The forming of associative and largely mutually remote elements into new combinations. (Mednick) primordial image in the unconscious which ...compensates the inadequacy and onesidedness of the present. the human striving towards a more completely individuated, differentiated and blending of all one's given characteristics. Gung) 2) A process of association by which mental states become joined together so that one state invokes the other. (Ribot) 3) The ability to bring something new into existence. (May, Barron) 10) In the creative act, the ego is temporarily reduced: regression in the service of the ego. Creativity occurs when there is free interplay between preconscious and conscious. 4) The art of viewing the familiar fully in its inexhaustible being. (Schachetl) (Kris) 5) A process in which new and unique products emerge from the interaction of the organism and its environment (Chambers, 6) The process of sensing gaps or disturbing, missing elements 7) The mental activity in problem- st at in g, situations technical result. problem-solving where artistic or inventions are the 8) A sublimation for achieving satisfaction and thus avoiding the hardships of reality. (Freud) 9) The unsatisfied yearnings of the artist reach back to the 11) The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy-the human's tendency to actualize itself, to become the potential. (Rogers). 12) Originality involves getting back to the origin, to the roots of one's experience. (Peterson, 1972)