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CREATIVITY: FOSTERING, MEASURING AND CONTEXTS
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This chapter reports on longitudinal research which explores the experience of mentally ill, developing artists. Through a particular use of the interview space and biographic narrative interviews, an intimate portrait was drawn of the different lines of continua these artistic individuals were negotiating. Such lines were traced through their „wellnesses,‟ their crises, their creative and pedagogic breakthroughs and culs-de-sac. Continua were also noted in their deepening insights into their internal world and external products, invoking considerations of the Winnicottian transitional object.
Such continua threw into relief the extremes of health and illness; ̳rapid-fire creative production‘ (Jaques, 1965: 229) and the despair of hiatus. The continuum of learning, unlearning or stasis was also narrated. Prominent was the continuum along which each strived to locate her or his artistic work, variously as therapy, catharsis, break-through, or pristine content which sometimes broke the stultifying bonds of history, pathology, class and cultural background.
These uninterrupted words, representing reflections over a span of three years, show us the importance of the seemingly prosaic decisions and daily minutiae of living with mental illness. But they also demand a deeper exploration of how acts of reparation (Klein, 1998) are made as the psyche strives for integration, as well as how we attack and sometimes self- sabotage that integration, undoing the repair, sometimes repetitively (Freud, 1914)
ALESSANDRA M. CORRIGAN - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-1-61728-067-2
NONE
CREATIVITY: FOSTERING, MEASURING AND CONTEXTS
Management
English
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
2010
USA
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