The role of hallucinatory experiences in the emergence of creative processes

Journal/Book: Evol Psychiatr. 2000; 65: 23 Rue Linois, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier. 361-370.

Abstract: The circumstances that bring about the creative art have been described by numerous artists as the moment of depersonalisation which, for some creators, can take the '' quasi haIlucinatory '' form resulting from an over-investment of sensorial memory traces. This experience often described as painful brings the creator back to a dangerous form of self-induced passivity for his psychic apparatus, a prey to a threat of an unbinding process. Hence creating becomes for the subject the only means to shape the drive-forces born of a dramatic event which the psychic apparatus cannot dominate.

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Keyword(s): archaic mothering imago; hallucinating sensations; memory traces; process representation; trauma

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