![]() ![]() May, The Courage to Create, page 40 The anxiety of creatingĬreative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. ![]() Creativity, as Webster’s rightly indicates, is basically the process of making, of bringing into being. May, The Courage to Create, page 21 A definition of creativityĬreativity must be seen in the work of the scientist as well as in the artist, in the thinker as well as in the aesthetician and one must not rule out the extent to which it is present in captains of modern technology as well as in a mother’s normal relationship with her child. To every thesis there is an antithesis, and to this there is a synthesis. To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. ![]() ![]() May sees creativity as the ultimate goal of all people (not merely those traditionally deemed “creative”) and links creativity to well-being and a desire to make the world a better place. Author Rollo May Publisher Norton Copyright 1975 Buy this book AmazonĪn approach to creativity from an existential psychologist. ![]()
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