Creativity

Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing

By: Kevin Brophy

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Paperback | 30 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Is creativity a therapeutic, culturally enriching and health-giving pursuit, or is it an outpouring of darkly unconscious, neurotically dangerous material?

Is creativity a therapeutic, culturally enriching and health-giving pursuit, or is it an outpouring of darkly unconscious, neurotically dangerous material? What have been some of the important modern influences on our assumptions and ideas about creativity?

Using a fascinatingly varied but beautifully controlled blend of approaches, Kevin Brophy places the creative writer and artist within a modern history of arguments over questions of creativity. He discusses creativity as a social-cultural practice, presenting creativity as a historical, political and inevitably compromised practice which must always be in dispute.

In a world where creative writing is becoming institutionalised through university courses, he argues for the importance of continuing instability, theoretical sophistication and unsettled differences over what creativity is.

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Education Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Society & Culture Cultural Studies Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Psychoanalytical Theory & Freudian Psychology Arts & Entertainment

History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1900 to 1960 Surrealism & Dada

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Mapping the Territory	p. 7
Masterpiece: A Short Story	p. 48
Freud, Psychoanalysis and the Creative Arts	p. 58
Psychoanalysis and Surrealism	p. 112
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Surrealism	p. 150
Some Things About Creative Writing: Three Stories	p. 187
Creative Writing and Institutions of Education	p. 201
Coda	p. 244
References	p. 245
Index	p. 261
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