CONTENTS
















Title page

Jacket - about the author

  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

Defined . . . .                                                                                              99

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                       128

AUTHOR INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                  147

SUBJECT INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                           151