The unconscious roots of creativity / edited by Kathryn Madden ; with articles by Linda Carter and 14 others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forward -- Introduction, acknowledgments and book cover artist -- All is fire : the imagination as aperture into psyche / by James Hollis -- Painting and being painted : a portrait / by Ann Ulanov -- Of creative powers and personalities : erich neumann's theory of the origins of psyche's creativity / by Murray Stein -- Jung's "living mystery" of creativity, symbols and the unconscious in writing / by Susan Rowland -- Fellowship of the word : on complexes, chaos, and attractors / by Leonard Cruz -- The creative encounter and the theory of formation / by Carol Thayer Cox -- The pillar of Isis / by Robin van Loben Sels -- Tracking the wild poem / by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky -- Witnesses of the other / by Ian Livingston -- Unconscious compensation and integration : art making for wholeness and balance / by Jordan S. Potash & Lisa Raye Garlock -- Art, aesthetics and ethics : an impossible troika according to Jung / by Tjeu van den Berk -- Art subjects : an exploration of imaginal expression as means of individuation and healing / by Heidi S. Volf -- Art and intersubjectivity / by Linda Carter -- Butoh : the dance of being, a Jungian interpretation / by Anna Maria Costantino -- Theatre and the unconscious / by Kathryn Madden.

'From whence spring the sparks of creativity? It is to this very question that the field of depth psychology—especially that of C.G. Jung and his intellectual descendants—has much to contribute.
Just as the Muses were the offspring of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, our memories are the ancestors of our creativity that finds its multifaceted expression in the written word, image, theater, dance, and music. The Unconscious Roots of Creativity seeks to push the investigation into that domain of memory that is beyond our conscious reach. With articles from 16 contributors, the “red thread” running through each of the offerings in this volume is that, whatever its ultimate expression, the creative impulse has its roots deep in the psyche.'

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