Artist and the Emotional World - Creativity and Personality

The Artist and the Emotional World is unique as an effort to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. From over four decades of psychoanalytical practice, Gedo draws on his work with his psychotherapy patients and more than twenty analysands involved in a variety of creative endeavors as well as the biographies of a number of well-known artists, including Mozart, Gauguin, Conrad, Trollope, van Gogh, Goya, Picasso, Gorky, Proust, and many others.
In this unique blending of clinical experience with in-depth biographical study, Gedo examines both the necessary traits that prepare a person for a creative career as well as the emotional vicissitudes of such a career-the psychological issues talented persons must struggle with in order to be creative. He then goes further to discuss crucial developmental experiences that may result in a creative personality-childhood experiences, the strong, possibly negative, effect of a possession of talent on personality, and the influence of opportunities provided by a creator's environment. Gedo also details attributes required of the successful artist, the possible need to separate creativity from psychosis, and the evolution of psychoanalytic views on creativity.

Info autore

John E. Gedo

Riassunto

Attempts to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. This book assesses the traits necessary to prepare someone for a creative career, as well the crucial developmental experiences that may result in a creative personality.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Gedo, John E. Gedo
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.08.1996
• EAN: 9780231078535
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07853-5
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Psychoanalysis & Culture
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, ART / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, The arts, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis