Creative Process: Formative or Formed?

Van Gogh's uncertainty as to what he might be is typical. The inventor whether artist or thinker, creates the structure of his psychic life by means of his works. As C G Jung remarks: "The work in process becomes the poets fate and determines his psychic development It is not Goethe who creates Faust but Faust which creates Goethe!"

Van Gogh’s uncertainty as to what he might be is typical. The inventor whether artist or thinker, creates the structure of his psychic life by means of his works. As C G Jung remarks: “The work in process becomes the poets fate and determines his psychic development It is not Goethe who creates Faust but […]