CONTENTS
Chapter Page
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . ix
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
The Literature of Development . . . . . . . . . 2
Species Development . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Individual Development . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Literature of Creativity . . . . . . . . . . 5
Creativity as Cognitive, Rational and Semantic . . . 7
Creativity as Personal and Environmental . . . . . 9
Creativity as Mental Health and Openness . . . . 13
Creativity as Freudian and Neo-Freudian . . . . . 15
The Freudian school . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rank's views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The neo-Freudians . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Oedipal theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The preconscious . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Creativity as Psychedelic . . . . . . . . . . 21
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2 DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES . . . . . . . . . . 24
Development as a Parameter with Discrete Levels
. . .
25
Periodic Aspects of the Theory of Developmental
Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Open-Ended Periodic Table of Development and
Its Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Characteristic Tasks and Strengths . . . . . . . . 33
Differential Development . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3 ESCALATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Succession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Discontinuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Fixation as an Aspect of Developmental Processes 41
Differentiation as a Shift of Emphasis or
Metamorphosis . . . . . . . . . . .
41
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Concept Formation and Conceptualization . . . . . 44
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4 CREATIVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creativity as the Outcome of the Proper Functioning
of Development . . . . . . . . . . . .
53
Oedipal Origins: Magic Nightmare or Creative Fantasy. . 54
Stabilizing the Creative Function . . . . . . . . 56
The Child Learns Whether to Defend or Cope . . . 56
The Child Learns the Symbolic Representation of
Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . .
56
The Child Moves Somewhere Along the Continuum
from Adapted to Creative . . . . . . . .
57
The Child Establishes the Preconscious and Learns
to Operate the Creativity Cycle . . . . . .
60
Stage Relationships of Creativity . . . . . . . . 67
While Creativity Is Emphasized at Stages Three
and
Six, It Is Not Absent at Other Stages . . . .
68
Creativity Occurs in Individuals of Less Than
Perfect Mental Health Even Though Mental
Health Enhances Creative Performance . . .
68
Creativity as Evolutionary Development: Throwbacks
and Throw-Forwards . . . . . . . . . .
70
5 THE CONDITIONS FOR CREATIVITY:
ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULATION . . . . . . . . 72
Creative Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Parental Stimulation of Creativity . . . . . . . . 74
Developing a Fostering Attitude . . . . . . . . 74
Facilitating the Child's Creativity through Mental
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . .←
76
Facilitating the Child's Creativity through Social
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . .
78
Teacher and Counselor Stimulation . . . . . . . . 80
Establishing the Creativity Cycle and
Managing Its Depressed
Phase . . . . . . . . . .
83
Environmental Stimulation of Youth in Universities 85
Adult Stimulation, Especially Travel . . . . . . . 88
Foetalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6 THE PENALTIES OF NONCREATIVITY . . . . . . 98
Engaged, Displayed, Degraded or Wasted Energy
Inefficient Display of Energy: Compensation . . . . 99
Boredom and Ennui: Rationalization . . . . . .
.
100
Immaturity or Senility, Envy, Resentment or
Despair: Projection . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Rage and Destructiveness: Authoritarianism,
Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Neurosis or Psychosis: Fugue or Flight . . . . . . 102
Psychopathology and Remission: Self-Renewal . . . . 103
Developmental Process and Arrest . . . . . . . . 105
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7 THE MANSION OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION . . . . . III
Self-Actualization Defined as Pertaining to the
Last Three Stages . . . . . . . . . . .
III
The Psychedelic Experience . . . . . . . . . . 113
Illumination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Techniques for Facilitating Self-Actualization . . . . 119
Psychomotor and Physiological Means . . . . . . 119
Religious, Mystic and Hypnotic Experience . . . . 120
Cognitive Techniques for Self-Actualization . . . . . 121
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126