Anthropomorphized Creativity :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Anthropomorphized Creativity It starts at 2 oclock in the morning, a blank sheet in front of your eyes and a blank brain behind. Whether for grades, for money, for for glory, for love, or for self respect, you have to put your thoughts fine-tune in a coherent form, exclusively you deposenot. You beg for the ability to cutting out of neutral and get writing, but it doesnt come. And like any clement being since we started carving into bone and shaping clay, you start to put in your consciousnesss eye a face to what you are seeking. It has eyes, brows, a nose, and of course, a push aside contemptuous smirk. That same tendency that has lead to the fashioning of idols now comes to you.The surreptitious of creativeness, (Carl Jungs phrase) like the philosophers stone, is an abstraction that has tempted many great minds into building theoretical structures that hear to explain the creative carry through, and that fail to do so for a legal age of creative artists. Jung calls it a transcendental problem which the psychologist cannot answer but can completely describe. In his essay The Artist Jung attempts to describe the creative process using the ideas and metaphors of his eponymous theories. These attempt to replace the artist, a living, breathing human beings being, with abstractions according to which the artist is an impersonal creative process. While I belatedly read through his essay The Artist, and through Nathaniel Hawthornes story The Artist of the Beautiful, what came to my mind were those germs whose own creative processes did not fit Hawthornes and Jungs notions. I can only chalk this up to my contrarian nature and to my choice of authors. Although more likely, it is because of my own idolatry.The author Harlan Ellison doesnt relish being asked about the secret of creativeness, at least so far as it pertains to himself. Questions about it prompt him to give a apprize explanation of how he gets his ideas from a mail order business in Sch enectady, New York. (They also cause him to change colors all through the spectrum.) His glib response points to the difficulty of describing the creative process in a way that will carry from one artist over to many. The contest is compounded by the prejudices we have about the human mind in general. Every idea about the human mind is an abstraction that cannot but repel as many people as it attracts.