Creativity, creation, the creative process

The author offers a survey of the fields of creativity, sublimation, and the creative process. Freud and the analysts belonging to his school centered their theory of creativity on the concept of sublimation. Then Winnicott raised the question again, bringing about a sort of epistemological split. His theory of transitionality, his concept of the found/created, changed the mutual relationship between the sexual and creativity. Working from his ideas, René Roussillon showed that the investigation of creativity leads to an investigation of sexuality, not the opposite. He thereby explored the idea of sublimation more fully. Drawing examples from the works of Edvard Munch, Yayoi Kusama, Gustav Mahler, Charles Juliet, and Anne Wiazemsky, and citing clinical case studies, the author compares psychoanalytical practice and the creative process.