The creative process and psychoanalytic insight

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Notes

1. Kris, E. (1952). Psychoanalytic explorations in art (p. 35). London: George Allen & Unwin.

2. Kris, 1952, p. 35.

3. Freud, S.(1960 [1912, 1913]). Totem and taboo (p. 76). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

4. Kris, E., & Kurz, O. (1979). Legend, myth and magic in the image of the artist (p. 74). New Haven: Yale University Press.

5. Kris, & Kurz, 1979, p.74.

6. Kris, E. & Kurz, O. (1979). The artist as magician, p. 78.

7. Segal, H. (1986). Delusion and artistic creativity and other psychoanalytic essays (p. 191). London: Free Association Books. Proust is very close to me although I have used Segal. I was reading about the death of Albertine at the exact moment when my own mother died.

8. Segal, 1986, p. 190.

9. Winnicott, D.W. (1945). Primitive emotional development. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 26, 139.

10. Winnicott, D.W. (1953). Transitional objects and transitional phenomena – A study of the first not-me possession. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 39, 89.

11. Arlow, J.A. (1969a). Fantasy, memory and reality testing. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 38, 28–51; Arlow, J.A. (1969b). Unconscious fantasy and disturbances of conscious experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 38, 1–27.

12. Balter, L. (2002). Magic and the aesthetic illusion. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 50, 1184.

13. Arieti, S. (1964). The rise of creativity from primary to tertiary process. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1, 54.

14. Jakobson, R.(1956). The metaphoric and metonymic poles. In Fundamentals of language. Gravenhenge: Mouton.