Creativity - the unconscious source of the creative spirit

[M Winther]

"Creativity"

~ the unconscious source of the creative spirit ~

Abstract: There are two forms of creativity, our daytime creativity
and its unconscious complement (my conjecture). The latter abides
unconsciously as a semi-autonomous spiritual power that ever searches
to manifest itself in human life. In dreams it is often symbolized by
the phallus, and in alchemy by the spirit Mercurius. It is hampered by
modern-day rationalism and the reductive view of the unconscious as
mere drive nature and repressed content. What is even more damaging to
the unconscious creative force is the romanticizing tendency present
among Jungians and followers of New Age. The technique of 'active
imagination', due to a romantic obsession with symbolic imagery, is
likely to block out a true creativity. Hence conscious attachments
cannot be abandoned. It makes impossible the goal of the immersion in
the unconscious, so central to mystical and spiritual discipline. The
corrupting influence befalls the very people who are favourably
disposed toward the unconscious. Their creative instinct is distorted
and warped.

Keywords: creativity ("solar" and "lunar"), painting, psychoanalysis,
phallus, romanticism, mysticism, alchemy, Picasso, critique of active
imagination.

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Mats Winther