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Title:The Courage to Create
Author:Rollo May
Book Format:Unknown Binding
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 159 pages
Published:January 1st 1975 by W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. (NY)
Categories:Psychology. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Art. Language. Writing

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What if imagination & art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic & science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist & inspiring guide, Dr May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives. His insightful book offers us a way thru our fears into a fully realized self.
Preface
The courage to create
The nature of creativity
Creativity & the unconscious
Creativity & encounter
The Delphic oracle as therapist
On the limits of creativity
Passion for form
Notes

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Original Title: The Courage to Create
ISBN: 0393011194 (ISBN13: 9780393011197)
Edition Language: English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n50-7062

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This book is incredible. It's very short; but, it is not something one should read in an afternoon. Rollo May talks about his own insights and thoughts about creativity, it's sources, inspiration,... , and all that from a rather humanistic/existentialist or neoanalytic psychological perspective. He uses great examples from his practice and his daily life that really help creating a mental image of what ever he is describing. I must have read this book a million times, and I'll keep on reading it

A useful book on the creative process, though dated in some topics (interpreting dreams), lack of insight (the person who is pregnant by her father isnt anxious), and sexism (bitch goddesses?) Still, much good about the role of conscious and unconscious.

I first read this book when I was 19 or 20, and it is marked and dog eared from regular re-reading every couple of years. When my creative spirit seems a little thirsty, this book offers a refreshing drink. Short and quick to read.

(page 15) "We need a new type of physical courage that will neither run rampant in violence nor require our assertion of ego-centric power over other people. I propose a new form of courage of the body: the use of body not for the development of muscle men, but for the cultivation of sensitivity. It will be, as Nietzsche remarked,a learning to think with the body. It will be a valuing of the body as the means of empathy with others, as expression of self as think of beauty and as a rich source

Good stuff. Challenging. May asserts that artists, writers, poets, etc. need to genuinely encounter, or engage with the world which they are interpreting in their art.I'm still mulling over his chapters on the Oracle of Delphi. I THINK that what he was getting at is that artists make new discoveries and create new things with the help of myths and symbols already available to us in our cultures and in the collective unconsciousness.May does a fantastic job of recommending that rather than

A highly fascinating book, for the most part.

A series of lectures on creativity. Published in 1975, with the spirit of the times, it now comes across as somewhat dated. It was well written, though, and kept me interested. It also shed a totally new - for me - light on the Prometheus myth, which for me was worth the price of admission.