What is creativity? Are we all "potential geniuses"?
In this article, the concept of creativity under scrutiny: are we all potential artists?
Many of us have been dusted with creativity at one time or another. We have created, devised, imagined endless possibilities and worlds. We have related concepts and even formed a new reality.
But what exactly is creativity? what exactly is creativity?
Creativity: how and why
Creativity is defined as the process of giving birth to something new and useful at the same time. To establish the relationship between this new environment and reality, we use our imagination.
People often think of creativity as an attribute or quality that we are practically born with. The "creativity of the artist" is the most widely recognized as genuine, but what does an artist have to develop this facet of creativity? what does an artist have to develop this creative facet?
Discovering the keys to the creative personality
The world around us is perceived differently by each of us. We have in our mind a personalized version of reality, that is, each of us has our own vision of the world that we feel and understand, guided by our experience.
Many artists in history have been related to some kind of psychological imbalance or disorder. psychological imbalance or disorderSigmund Freud expressed this circumstance with the following words: "There is always a pathology that often refers back to traumatic experiences of childhood. traumatic childhood experiencesan openness to the conflicts of the unconscious".
Psychoanalysts debate to what extent a person with one type of disorder can become a genius. For example, the case of Kim Peek illustrates how a superhuman superhuman ability in one area (in his case, a prodigious ability to remember everything he perceives) may not translate into a balance of all the facets that we as humans aspire to develop.
For Freud, creativity is the summit of the artist's desire, an opening artist's desire, an opening into repressed desires and fantasies, where neurosis or psychotic personalities fit. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst Ernst Kris associated creativity with the ability to find new connections between ideas. A recipe composed in conjunction with conscious and unconscious thought.
Keys to understanding the creative mind
If we stop to think about writers, sculptors, art masters and dream sellers, the vast majority of them share an intense account of their lives, thoughts and ideas.the vast majority share an intense account of their lives, deep thoughts, the search for truth and perfection, disappointments and pain, the self-perception of a deep self with which we identify. There are people who repeatedly tell me that during their nightmares, in their most disheartening moment or in their most intense moment of joy, is when they find the key that gives way to the idea they were looking for, or the concept that gives a new color to the meaning of life.
The continuous search is what moves us, creating bridges with our imagination. A meaning or an experience is the creative canvas we seek to capture something unexplainable, and it is the artist who is the wise and it is the artist who is the sage who explains it to us, who shows us that it is possible to go beyond what we know.
August Strindberg, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Louis Wain, Wassily Kandinsky, among others, take us to the world of art.among others, take us to multiple realities taken by the hands of a creator.
Therefore, we should not discard that creativity goes along with the evolution of our world, and that it is in our world where we acquire our vision and creative inspiration. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, without going any further, warns us that each person is unique and unrepeatable and possesses certain skills and abilities, which should not be objectified.
It is not necessary to be a person with a well-known name to participate in the explosion of something new.We only need to close our eyes and let ourselves go, to become our own genius. genius.
Bibliographic references:
- Implicit theories and artistic creativity by Manuela Romo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). file:////Users/Apple/Downloads/6804-6888-1-PB.PDF
- Introduction to art psychoanalysis http://books.google.es/books
(Updated at Apr 13 / 2024)