6 Notions of creativity

James Hillman

5 instincts

•SCARE• hunger• sexuality• drive to activity• reflection • creativity

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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