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6 Notions of creativity
James Hillman
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5 instincts
•SCARE• hunger• sexuality• drive to activity• reflection • creativity
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It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observationMight satisfy his mind..John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
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Order is good; order is God; God is good.
• one right way, one truth.
• father archetype shows method and hierarchy
• Rational, Apollo as god of management
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new must sever with the old
• Creativity becomes primal power itself• destroy the old to create the new• lives best at the destructive frontier
• creates counter order– Mature means
• ART– immature
• Agression• greed
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success/fame
• creative is perceived through the persona (mask)
• creativity identified with eminence• Up to the top
– ideas -> mythic importance• celebrity
– outward• mask > persona
– Danger is loss self– life -> symbolic
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creation is novelty
• bound to time directed towards future– time's enemy – or as time's child
• be original– Stereotype: youthful hero
• Action – hope– optimism– growth– joy– play– humorous
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problem solving
• Promethean theft of fuel to create new forms
• ego originates against the Gods
• patient attention and hard work• inventive• resourceful• Rational with idea:
– Man over nature– Everything is possible
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cyclic like seasons
• the creative is an external source• nourishing and regenerating• subject to periodic barrenness• mother archetype
• Creative is an unconscious process• disciplined
• renewal– Experimenting– probing
• Gaia– patient– sacrificing
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