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The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude towards success and fame; these two phenomena are but an extension, socially, of the process which began subjectively with the vocation and creation of the personal ego to be an artist.  In this entire creative process, which begins with self-nomination as artist and ends in the fame of posterity, two fundamental tendencies -- one might almost say, two personalities of the individual -- are in continual conflict throughout: one wants to eternalize itself in artistic creation, the other in ordinary life -- in brief, immortal man vs. the immortal soul of man. ...from Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development - by Otto Rank, foreword by Anais Nin image by photographer Jeff Reese from book

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As I've grown older, I've been thinking a lot more about the end of my life ... I don't have unlimited years left, and I want to know what is more central to me and my life right now. Above all, I don't want to do anything that feels repetitious. ... What feels most central for me is being creative and looking at the way in which I have creative talents and gifts that I haven't used.  I basically see myself as a storyteller engaged in ideas that have to do with an existential, deeper approach to life. I feel very uncomfortable with the idea of these gifts being unused. ...   And I don't take myself very seriously. There's an old Italian proverb that sticks in my mind a lot: "When the chess game is over, the pawns, rooks, kings and queens all go back into the same box." Somehow I find that quite an important comment. Irvin D. Yalom, MD .. [from Salon magazine interview] .. photo and quotes from his site books:   Existential Psychotherapy     When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

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Anyway, among many things, what amazed me about painting was where this was all coming from.  I painted for just over three months before I stopped as I painted about 200 "works" for lack of a better word, but it was as if some need in me was being fulfilled in a form that I had no conscious understanding of whatsoever, and yet it was more pleasurable than anything I had undertaken before. We may know very little consciously about one or another of the art forms, but these forms seem to know something about us, and the evocative structuring of any of these forms, seems not just destined but designed to play upon unconscious formal knowledge sitting there in each of us. Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas - from article: Free association in psychoanalysis  and the arts [from Freud Museum conference 2002] ....Cracking Up: The Work of Unconscious Experience by Christopher Bollas

.. .. painting by elephant artist  Seng Wong -  related book:  When Elephants Paint:  The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand

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The Borderland is what I call that psychic space where the overspecialized and overly rational Western ego is in the process of reconnecting with its split-off roots in Nature.  Phrases such as "a reconnection to Nature" can conjure up the idealized image of Native Americans as portrayed in the movies, or "New Age" ideas and movements or vague allusions to ancient mysteries and the occult, many of which are perceived as "flaky" by the culture at large.  Certainly, these ideas are indeed manifestations of a "reconnection with Nature" that is taking place in Western culture. However, I am talking here of a profound, psychic process in which the very psychological nature and structure of the Western ego is evolving through dramatic changes. It is becoming something more and different from what we have known in the past. .....from article: On the Borderland by Jungian analyst Jerome Bernstein

.. "Reflecting Stream,  Redding Connecticut"  by Paul Caponigro

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Rollo May made use of the classical Greek idea of the daimon to provide the basis for his mythological model of the daimonic. "The daimonic," wrote May, is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. "Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both. When this power goes awry, and one element usurps control over the total personality, we have "daimon possession," the traditional name through history for psychosis. "The daimonic is obviously not an entity but refers to a fundamental archetypal function of human experience, an existential reality..." from article The Psychology of Evil - Devils, Demons, and the Daimonic by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph. D. - an excerpt from book Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence,  Evil, and Creativity by Stephen A. Diamond, PhD interview: Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. - The psychology of creativity: redeeming our inner demons

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A closer look has convinced me that life is more like an ecosystem than a linear equation. All the parts are interconnected. This feeling for the relationship between things - seeing the world as a cat's cradle of interconnections rather than as a set of isolated fragments - is something I learned from being a collage artist: everything is related to everything else.  Nothing is isolated. Nothing exists separately from the rest. And synchronicities are the nodal points, magic moments where seemingly unrelated events are woven together to form a single, undivided world fabric. . ...Suzi Gablik from press release for book signing at Appalachian's Turchin Center  for the Visual Arts, November 2002 ....Living the Magical Life: An Oracular Adventure - by Suzi Gablik  related book: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle -- by Carl Jung, et al

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Four days a week, Rachel H. takes the subway uptown, waves to the doorman in the large prewar apartment building where her psychoanalyst keeps his office, lies down on a burgundy leather couch and begins to talk. ... After spending six years.. on analysis, she says she is less self-destructive, more responsible, more productive and more successful in her work. from article: "Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Still Prefer the Couch" by Erica Goode [NY Times] > psychologist [Loren Dean] seeing one of his patients [Hope Davis] in film Mumford [1999] ..more on counseling / therapy

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A woman who is writing, for example, needs the masculine to begin her process, to put the words on the paper in a logical, informed way. ... and she also needs the masculine courage and strength to allow herself to be taken over. In that moment, she's trying to discriminate between the personal and the transpersonal. That can be very frightening, and that's where masculine courage and strength are required. It takes tremendous courage to surrender at that point. Now, this is as true in a male artist as it is in a female, so my point is simply that there's a divine marriage going on between the feminine and the masculine in every creative process. from The Emergence of the Black Goddess - An Interview with Marion Woodman

**books by Marion Woodman:** Dancing in the Flames : The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine  **** audio books : The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing : Feminine & Masculine in Emerging Balance Sitting by the Well : Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness Through Language, Dreams and Metaphor Chaos or Creativity?

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Dancing and creating a kind of fata morgana, a fantasy world... is still another aspect of creating the symbolic life, which one lives by following up one's dreams and day fantasies and the impulses which come up from the unconscious, for fantasy gives life a glow and a color which the too-rational outlook destroys. Fantasy is not just whimsical ego-nonsense but comes really from the depths; it constellates symbolic situations which give life a deeper meaning and a deeper realization.   Marie-Louise von Franz - in her book The Interpretation of Fairy Tales related page:....mythology.

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The Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts

The C.G. Jung Page.......CG Jung Page articles

Lucy Daniels Foundation

Depth Psychology At Large Links - Suite101.com

Stephen A. Diamond, PhD - Center for Existential Depth Psychology

Ecopsychology On-Line
".. environmental scientists, activists, and lawyers, academic psychologists and psychotherapists are defining the field. ... all these disciplines have something of value to offer the common cause of keeping our relations with the natural world sane and sustainable. Ecopsychology is intended as an open dialogue for many voices.

Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts

PSYART - Online Forum / mailing list of the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts -
about the psychological study of literature and the arts.

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
"a membership-based non-profit research and educational organization. We assist scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for and report on studies into the healing and spiritual potentials of MDMA, psychedelic drugs and marijuana."

Mything Links
"An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions"

Otto Rank - Psychologist and Philosopher 1884 Vienna -- 1939 New York
Once the favorite son of  Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank eventually became one of his mentor's sharpest critics. Rank was Freud's closest disciple and colleague from 1906-1926, the formative years of the psychoanalytic movement. Freud valued Rank's expertise in art, music, literature, anthropology, history, science and philosophy and advised him not to go to medical school but to complete his academic education. Rank.. got his Ph.D. at 28, in 1912. By then he had published books on art, mythology, incest, and Lohengrin.

Psyche Matters - "Explore matters of the psyche through online papers, psychoanalytic bibliographies, and more..."
 

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A Couch for Authors in Need of One by Phoebe Hoban
But for those tortured souls whose highest-priority creative opus is not so much their writing as themselves, the Lucy Daniels Foundation here has created a different kind of refuge. ... a program that provides subsidized psychoanalysis for an unlimited time. It is a sort of writers' colony for the mind.

Creativity, the Arts, and Madness by Maureen Neihart
A brief, historical review of the alleged association between creativity and madness is followed by highlights from recent research in psychiatry and clinical psychology that address this relationship. The precise nature of this link is explored from the perspectives of several disciplines, and implications for the creative process in gifted education are discussed. Creativity is defined as the production of something both new and valued. Madness is defined as self destructive deviant behavior.

Depth Psychology and Giftedness: Bringing Soul to the Field of Talent Development and Giftedness -
by F. Christopher Reynolds & Jane Piirto [Roeper Review]
While the field of gifted education has relied on educational, cognitive, counseling, behavioral, developmental, and social psychology, the domain of depth psychology offers special insights into giftedness, especially with regard to individuation. The notion of passion, or the thorn (J. M. Piirto, 1999, 2002), the incurable mad spot (F. C. Reynolds1997, 2001), the acorn (J. Hillman, 1996, 1999), the daimon (C. G. Jung, 1965); the importance of integration through the arts and through dreams; the existence of the collective unconscious; the presence of archetypes; and the transcendent psyche—all have resonance with the binary etymological idea of “gift” as both blessing and poison. Depth psychology offers a way of understanding that is physical, psychological, and spiritual.

Metaphor and Image in Counseling the Talented   by Jane Piirto, Ph.D.
"After [my novel] was published and I reread it years later, I knew who [these characters] were. They were my two selves at the time: my tame daytime self, a responsible, organized single mother, a coordinator of programs for the gifted, and my wild poetic self...The integration of these two selves.. took many years..."

Psychoanalysis and the Self: Toward a Spiritual Point of View by John E. Mack, M.D., The Center for Psychology & Social Change
Through myths the inner domain of human consciousness is connected to the surrounding world. Shamans are selected for their knowledge of and special access to the world beyond the manifest. The great powers of this world, often perceived in the spirits of animals, are used for healing purposes. Artists sometimes experience the process of their creativity as occurring beyond themselves, tapping into a source in nature from which they draw that is shaped by their efforts but exists in another realm.

The Psychology of Creativity: redeeming our inner demons - an interview with Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.:
"Creativity," Dr. Diamond states, " is one of humankind's healthiest inclinations, one of our greatest attributes. ... Our impulse to be creative can be understood to some degree as the subjective struggle to give form, structure and constructive expression to inner and outer chaos and conflict. It can also be one of the most dynamic methods of meeting and redeeming one's devils and demons."
 
 

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Diane Ackerman. Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire

Laurie S. Adams. Art and Psychoanalysis

Parveen Adams. Art: Sublimation or Symptom
Essays concerning the concept of sublimation, using both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Artists discussed include Hitchcock, Joyce, David Cronenberg, Caravaggio, Joel-Peter Witkin.

Silvano Arieti. Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

Christopher Bollas.  Cracking Up: The Work of Unconscious Experience
Every day, according to British psychoanalyst Bollas, each of us experiences hundreds of intense moments when ordinary consciousness mingles with unconscious memories, bodily sensations and instinctual reactions. This process, he maintains, produces ``latent thoughts,'' or unconscious ideas, that give rise to dreams when we sleep. Bollas argues that the freely moving work of the unconscious is vital to our sense of self and to creativity. [Publishers Weekly review]

Kim Chernin.  A Different Kind of Listening: My Psychoanalysis and Its Shadow

Joan Chodorow, ed. Jung on Active Imagination

Joan Chodorow. Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination

Elizabeth Cowie. Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis

Susan Deri. Symbolization and Creativity

Stephen A. Diamond, PhD.  Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity

Edward F. Edinger, Kendra Crossen.  Ego & Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

Sherana Harriette Frances. Drawing It Out : Befriending the Unconscious

"I do not know of any single document illustrating the extraordinary healing and transformative potential of psychedelics in a way that matches in its importance this book by Harriette Frances and the unique illustrations that accompany it. Her ability to find artistic expression for the images from the depth of her psyche is truly extraordinary!" - Stanislav Grof, M.D., former President, International Transpersonal Association and Scholar-in-residence, Esalen Institute, Big Sur; author of LSD Psychotherapy

"The story of Harriette Frances is unique, and the artwork that charts her self-transformation is remarkable. Bringing them together in one book will produce a landmark product that will intrigue and astonish a large body of eager readers." - Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Prof. of Psychology, Saybrook Institute. Author, The Mythic Path: Discovering the Guiding Stories of Your Past

"Powerful art draws on both rich experience and the depths of the psyche, and the art of (Sherana) Harriette Frances is a superb example of this process. I have shown her work in numerous lectures and find that her evocative images of her dramatic inner transformations always delight and astound. I am delighted that she is making the full sequence of her images available to the public." - Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, University of California at Irvine. Author, Essential Spirituality

"We live in a culture largely preoccupied with material gain and self interest, creating the inability to understand the true potential of psychedelic substances and our inherent spiritual nature. Harriette Frances, through her initial psychedelic experience, recognized and was able to express in drawings much self-knowledge which arose from a deep source of understanding within her. Discovery of this source permitted a continual practice of self-revelation, confirming the awesome wisdom and vitality at the core of the human being. Her revelations should give great hope to all those seeking understanding and fulfillment." - Myron Stolaroff, author of Thanatos to Eros: Thirty-five Years of Psychedelic Exploration

Glen O. Gabbard. Psychoanalysis and Film

Glen O. Gabbard. The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family

Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, et al.  Does Psychoanalysis Work?

Stanislav Grof, M.D. LSD Psychotherapy - Introduction by Andrew Weil, M.D.

The sensationalism surrounding the widespread use of LSD in the late 60s and the subsequent legislative overkill virtually ended psychotherapeutic LSD research. Much of what had been learned over thirty years of scientific medical study was so distorted or suppressed that no objective overview was available to the general reader - except for this book. ... This book is also a visual feast, with numerous color drawings and paintings created by research participants (see featured artist Sherana Harriette Frances' book Drawing It Out: Befriending the Unconscious). Many of these depict archetypal images from the collective human consciousness, which form a powerful addition to the text. [Amazon.com summary]

James Hillman. The Dream and the Underworld

James Hillman. The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology

James Hillman. The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling

James Hillman, Michael Ventura.  We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse

Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer. Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

Women have been experimenting with drugs since prehistoric times, and yet published accounts of their views on the drug experience have been relegated to either antiseptic sociological studies or sensationalized stories splashed across the tabloids. The media has given us an enduring, but inaccurate, stereotype of a female drug user: passive, addicted, exploited, degraded, promiscuous. But the selections in this anthology -- penned by such famous names as Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, and Carrie Fisher -- show us that the real experiences of women are anything but stereotypical.

Sisters of the Extreme provides us with writings by women from diverse occupations and backgrounds, from prostitute to physician, who through their use of drugs dared cross the boundaries set by society--often doing so with the hope of expanding themselves and their vision of the world. Whether with LSD, peyote, cocaine, heroine, MDMA, or marijuana, these women have sought to reach, through their experimentation, other levels of consciousness. Sometimes their quests have brought unexpected rewards, other times great suffering and misfortune. But wherever their trips have left them, these women have lived courageously -- if sometimes dangerously -- and written about their journeys eloquently. [Amazon.com]

Carl Gustav Jung.  Man and His Symbols

Carl Gustav Jung.  Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Susan Kavaler-Adler. The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

Robert M. Lindner. The Fifty Minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales

Abraham Maslow. Toward a Psychology of Being

Rollo May. The Courage to Create

Jeffrey C. Miller, Joan Chodorow. The Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological Growth
Through Dialogue With the Unconscious
[from back cover:]  The transcendent function is the core of Carl Jung's theory of psychological growth and the heart of what he called individuation, the process by which one is guided in a teleological way toward the person one is meant to be.

Marion Milner. On Not Being Able to Paint

Marion Milner. The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Joseph Newirth, Ph.D. Between Emotion and Cognition: The Generative Unconscious
Much of psychoanalysis since Freud has rested on the attempt to make the unconscious conscious. Newirth (psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Adelphi U.) seeks the opposite, arguing that externalized objects of unconscious fantasies need to be internalized and used by the patient. He develops a neo- Kleinian model of psychoanalysis in which the analyst attempts to aid the patient towards internalization through mutual processes of reverie, the development of enactments, and transitional experiences. [Book News]

Jerome Oremland, MD.  The Origins and Psychodynamics of Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Barry Panter, M.D.  Creativity and Madness: Psychological Studies of Art and Artists

David Richo.  Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side

Michael Rustin, Margaret Rustin. Mirror to Nature : Drama, Psychoanalysis, and Society
Plays discussed in detail include works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Beckett, Miller, and Pinter.

Marie-Louise von Franz.  Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul

Alan Watts. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Irvin D. Yalom. Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Slavoj Zizek. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
 
 

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