What Is Creativity

FREUD suggested that creativity arises as a result of frustrated desires for fame, fortune, and love, with the energy that was previously tied up in frustration and emotional tension in the neurosis being sublimated into creative activity. Freud later retracted this view

*The ancient Greeks, who believed that the muses were the source of all inspiration, actually had no terms corresponding to “to create” or “creator.” The expression “poiein” (to make) sufficed. The sole exception was poetry: the poet was seen as making new things — bringing to life a new world — while the artist merely imitated.