What is creativity?
Many of us have wrapped ourselves in creativity dust at one time or another. We have created, devised, imagined endless possibilities and worlds. We have related concepts and we have even formed a new reality.
But, What exactly is the 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.
It is common for people to conceive creativity as an attribute or quality with which, practically, they are born. The "creativity of the artist" is the most recognized as genuine, but What does an artist have to develop that creative facet?
Discovering the keys to creative personality
The world around us is perceived by each of us in a different way. 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 associated with some kind of
psychological imbalance or disorder: temperamental, melancholic, lonely people... Sigmund Freud He expressed this circumstance with the following words: “There is always a pathology that frequently refers to traumatic childhood experiences, an opening to the conflicts of the unconscious ”.Psychoanalysts debate the extent to which a person with one type of disorder can turn you into a genius. For example, the case of Kim peek illustrates how a superhuman ability in a domain (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 pinnacle of the desire ofartist, an opening towards repressed desires and fantasies, where neurosis or psychotic personalities fit. Instead, the psychoanalyst Ernst kris associated creativity with 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 sellers of dreams; the vast majority share an account of their intense life, deep thoughts, search for truth and perfection, disappointments and pain, the self-perception of a deep self with which we feel identified. There are people who tell me repeatedly that during their nightmares, in their most heartbreaking moment or in their moment of jubilation more intense, is when they find the key that gives way to the idea they were looking for, or to the concept that gives a new color to the sense of lifetime.
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 inexplicable and it is the artist who explains it to us, the one 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 multiple realities taken by the hands of a creator.
Therefore, we must not rule out that creativity is accompanying the evolution of our world, and that it is in our world where we acquire our vision and creative inspiration. The Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple IntelligencesWithout going any further, it already warns us that each person is unique and unrepeatable and possesses certain skills and abilities, which should not be objectified.
You don't have to be a person with a known name to take part in the explosion of something new., we just need to close our eyes and let ourselves go, to become our own genius.
Bibliographic references:
- Implicit theories and artistic creativity of Manuela Romo (Autonomous University of Madrid). file: ///Users/Apple/Downloads/6804-6888-1-PB.PDF
- Introduction to the psychoanalysis of art http://books.google.es/books
