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Creative Possibilities
Hillman goes onto say Í know of no other psychologist who has so boldly and bluntly declared for the creative as the essence of man(woman) and — ‘’consequently we are led to state that Jungian Psychology is based primarily upon the creative instinct and in turn to infer that Jungian psychology is primarily a creative psychology’’. And according to Jung many of his clients or cases were not suffering from any clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and aimlessness of their lives…the general neurosis of our age’. Thus Jung characterizes therapy, in the same passage, as the process in which ‘’we must follow nature as a guide, and what the doctor then does is less a question of treatment than of developing the creative possibilities latent in the patient himself’’.
We may also conclude says Hillman that the creative as instinct can not be limited to the few, to geniuses and artists. This would be to again confuse the artistic with the creative. If it is a basic instinct along with hunger and sexuality, activity and reflection, then like these, it is given to all. And if it is given to us all…
— Jon Wilson
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“Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about.
