Creativity (n.) is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.
Creativity (n.) is an expression of repressed personal experiences inherent in our personal unconscious.
Creativity (n.) is Reason relaxing its watch at the gates, letting ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then examining them in a mass.
Creativity (n.) is overrated as conscious work; what is essential and new arrives unpremeditated, almost ready-made — as Goethe and Helmholtz report.
Creativity (n.) is armour that fails exactly when the arrows come from one's own body.
Creativity (n.) is at the same time an outlet for the artist's sexual desire, Freud holds it hardly possible to doubt.
Creativity (n.) is the one problem before which psychoanalysis, alas, must lay down its arms.