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- Title
Archetypal energy and the creative image.
- Authors
McCully, Robert S.; McCully, R S
- Abstract
If one views man's advancement as a developmental process (sometimes fallow, sometimes regressive and sometimes forward moving) and looks at certain eras as containers for specific developmental tasks, then time may also become to be known as the time of the discovery of the collective side in man. When the creative urge appears, the creative man is lifted out of himself. Collective forces being present inside man's psyche seems a remote concept to the avenge person. Obsession with rational explanations makes many skeptical. Rationalism tends to insulate against the sort of creative function under focus here. A rational approach to this form of creativity does not seem to work in practice. Symbol images simply happen, they impose themselves on consciousness and usually quite surprise the subject who reports them. A typical subject reacts by rationalizing the event inside familiar logical propositions.
- Subjects
ENERGY psychology; CREATIVE ability; COLLECTIVE action; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder; RATIONALISM; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 1976, Vol 21, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0021-8774
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-5922.1976.00064.x