Birgit Lang
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719099434
- eISBN:
- 9781526124098
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099434.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapters examines the attempts by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to popularise their research by choosing to analyse cases—and thus the phenomenon of—creative genius. It shows how ...
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This chapters examines the attempts by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to popularise their research by choosing to analyse cases—and thus the phenomenon of—creative genius. It shows how psychoanalysis and its proponents co-opted and adapted the medical case study as an extant and authoritative rhetorical form through which to forge a new mode of enquiry. The ways in which psychoanalysts such as Isidor Sadger sought to incorporate and adapt sexological pathographies into psychoanalytic thought, shaped the responses within the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and fuelled a debate that directly contributed to Freud’s development of psychoanalytic case writing. The decisive sophistication of this discourse can be appreciated in Sigmund Freud’s dialogic-psychoanalytic case studies, which show his keen appreciation of the bond that tied middle-class readers to revered creative artists. Yet Freud hesitated (or perhaps thought it fruitless) to challenge this reverence and left the complex quantification of results to his pupil Otto Rank.Less
This chapters examines the attempts by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to popularise their research by choosing to analyse cases—and thus the phenomenon of—creative genius. It shows how psychoanalysis and its proponents co-opted and adapted the medical case study as an extant and authoritative rhetorical form through which to forge a new mode of enquiry. The ways in which psychoanalysts such as Isidor Sadger sought to incorporate and adapt sexological pathographies into psychoanalytic thought, shaped the responses within the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and fuelled a debate that directly contributed to Freud’s development of psychoanalytic case writing. The decisive sophistication of this discourse can be appreciated in Sigmund Freud’s dialogic-psychoanalytic case studies, which show his keen appreciation of the bond that tied middle-class readers to revered creative artists. Yet Freud hesitated (or perhaps thought it fruitless) to challenge this reverence and left the complex quantification of results to his pupil Otto Rank.
Hannah Wohl
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226784557
- eISBN:
- 9780226784724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226784724.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter explores how artists portray themselves as those with true creative visions. Following bohemian culture rooted in the Belle Epoque in Paris, artists often fulfill their roles by behaving ...
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This chapter explores how artists portray themselves as those with true creative visions. Following bohemian culture rooted in the Belle Epoque in Paris, artists often fulfill their roles by behaving badly, or as enfant terribles. In particular, they often highlight their eccentricities. The association between eccentricity and creative genius is stronger for male artists than for female artists. Artists also portray themselves as aesthetically obsessed and economically disinterested. In turn, dealers portray themselves as supporters of artists' creative visions. Dealers work to subtly intervene in the creative process through their negotiations of what kinds of work artists make, how they install these works in the exhibition space, and the timing of exhibitions. Collectors perform their role as supporters of artists’ creative visions by providing social and economic support to artists. Lower-status artists have less autonomy in the creative process than higher-status artists, as their creative visions are seen as less precious.Less
This chapter explores how artists portray themselves as those with true creative visions. Following bohemian culture rooted in the Belle Epoque in Paris, artists often fulfill their roles by behaving badly, or as enfant terribles. In particular, they often highlight their eccentricities. The association between eccentricity and creative genius is stronger for male artists than for female artists. Artists also portray themselves as aesthetically obsessed and economically disinterested. In turn, dealers portray themselves as supporters of artists' creative visions. Dealers work to subtly intervene in the creative process through their negotiations of what kinds of work artists make, how they install these works in the exhibition space, and the timing of exhibitions. Collectors perform their role as supporters of artists’ creative visions by providing social and economic support to artists. Lower-status artists have less autonomy in the creative process than higher-status artists, as their creative visions are seen as less precious.
Dean Keith Simonton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190455675
- eISBN:
- 9780190883317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190455675.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Beginning with the idea that world civilizations are largely defined by the geniuses—and especially the “Big-C” creators who highlight their histories—the chapter then turns to how creative genius is ...
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Beginning with the idea that world civilizations are largely defined by the geniuses—and especially the “Big-C” creators who highlight their histories—the chapter then turns to how creative genius is distributed across both time and place, thus permitting both transhistorical and cross-cultural studies. Yet the sole method that enables such investigations is historiometry. After defining historiometry in terms of nomothetic hypotheses, quantitative analyses, and multiple historic cases, a brief history of the technique is presented. There follows an overview of historiometric research on creativity, an overview that touches upon creative geniuses, creative masterworks, and creative times and places. This treatment leads to an evaluation that emphasizes how historiometry provides the only scientific approach to studying creative genius of the highest order: those creators who have left a lasting mark on the history of civilization. This exclusive asset should encourage more historiometric inquiries well into the future.Less
Beginning with the idea that world civilizations are largely defined by the geniuses—and especially the “Big-C” creators who highlight their histories—the chapter then turns to how creative genius is distributed across both time and place, thus permitting both transhistorical and cross-cultural studies. Yet the sole method that enables such investigations is historiometry. After defining historiometry in terms of nomothetic hypotheses, quantitative analyses, and multiple historic cases, a brief history of the technique is presented. There follows an overview of historiometric research on creativity, an overview that touches upon creative geniuses, creative masterworks, and creative times and places. This treatment leads to an evaluation that emphasizes how historiometry provides the only scientific approach to studying creative genius of the highest order: those creators who have left a lasting mark on the history of civilization. This exclusive asset should encourage more historiometric inquiries well into the future.
Michael E. Martinez
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199781843
- eISBN:
- 9780190256050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199781843.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter explores three personal factors that together predict effectiveness in complex and dynamic environments: fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and effective character. It first ...
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This chapter explores three personal factors that together predict effectiveness in complex and dynamic environments: fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and effective character. It first considers human intelligence as an unrivaled superstructure for building an effective life, comprised of fluid and crystallized intelligence. It then shows how the combination of fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and effective character predicts and facilitates high achievement. It also examines expertise, a striking manifestation of intelligence, along with the role of chunking in school learning, the capacity of experts for problem solving, Herbert Simon's 10-year rule about experts, talent development in young people, and the creative genius. The chapter concludes by discussing the radex, created by Stanford professor Richard Snow and his colleagues to represent the structure of intelligence.Less
This chapter explores three personal factors that together predict effectiveness in complex and dynamic environments: fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and effective character. It first considers human intelligence as an unrivaled superstructure for building an effective life, comprised of fluid and crystallized intelligence. It then shows how the combination of fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and effective character predicts and facilitates high achievement. It also examines expertise, a striking manifestation of intelligence, along with the role of chunking in school learning, the capacity of experts for problem solving, Herbert Simon's 10-year rule about experts, talent development in young people, and the creative genius. The chapter concludes by discussing the radex, created by Stanford professor Richard Snow and his colleagues to represent the structure of intelligence.
Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Design
This chapter addresses the near absence of design education in K-12 schools and how it often reflects the myth of the creative genius in modern society. The chapter explores work by several creative ...
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This chapter addresses the near absence of design education in K-12 schools and how it often reflects the myth of the creative genius in modern society. The chapter explores work by several creative people and how they cultivated that creativity and the courage to deploy it. It offers a vision of a redesigned K-12 education that teaches students diverse intelligences and offers a more creative approach to the STEM fields.Less
This chapter addresses the near absence of design education in K-12 schools and how it often reflects the myth of the creative genius in modern society. The chapter explores work by several creative people and how they cultivated that creativity and the courage to deploy it. It offers a vision of a redesigned K-12 education that teaches students diverse intelligences and offers a more creative approach to the STEM fields.
