Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life by Corradi Fiumara Gemma;

Author:Corradi Fiumara, Gemma; [Fiumara, Gemma Corradi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

If you can be wide open, then I think there is a chance that you might catch some of those wild thoughts. And if you allow them to lodge in your mind, however ridiculous, … however fantastic, then there may be a chance of having a look at them. That is a matter of daring to have such thoughts – never mind whether you are supposed to have them or not – and keeping them long enough to be able to formulate what they are. 50

Patience and kindness, again, as a price for creativity.

We may explicitly formulate theories and consciously use them to guide our behaviour. But, if we entirely adhere to a chosen model, we may ultimately delude ourselves. For in the back of our minds are hidden assumptions and prejudices that determine how we use our models and perceive reality, what facts we include and how we judge their relevance. In Husserl’s phenomenology, the ‘technique’ of bracketing reality is designed to turn our attention from the objects of my consciousness to the consciousness of those objects, to the way I perceive these elements of reality. 51 Of course there is no risk of discarding the object of experience by placing it within parentheses, as if we were not sure of its existence, or as if we reduced it to our ‘idea’ of the celebrated ‘object of experience.’ Rather, the ‘phenomenologist’ retains her intentional relation to the world but turns her attention to the way in which her own experience is directed to the world – inner and outer – to the objects-just-as-she-experiences-them. At times of great intensity or distress we all become ‘phenomenologists.’ In a desperate situation we may be impotent; but in a phenomenologic outlook we can somehow become free observers of our condition. In fact the problem of inclusion is central to Husserl’s theory of intentionality, in the sense that every experience represents its objects through a specific formation of meaning, without which there cannot be coherent consciousness, but only a kaleidoscopic sequence of sensations and mental states. Phenomenology is some special type of first person reflection on experiences in which we develop descriptions of key forms of consciousness. In this outlook we try to ‘bracket’ the object that we actually see, and turn our attention instead to the way we experience it. The ‘technique’ of bracketing may thus aid us to systematically include, rather than exclude, even the more disquieting features of experience; we just let them happen. And so we could enhance our capacity to include even in the absence of exceptionally good theories with which we could elaborate on our experiences. Mitchell remarks that ‘It is hard to imagine a time when any one theoretical perspective will demonstrate such compelling reasonableness and truth that proponents of the others will change ranks, and psychoanalysis will once again be whole.’ 52 Such victory over competitors might fasten us to theoretical views that may ultimately hinder our creative capacity to include.

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