Creativity and the Transpersonal

Reviews the book, Creative Man: Five Essays by Erich Neumann (1979). This posthumous collection contains a long, interpretive essay on Franz Kafka's The Trial and four shorter essays on Marc Chagall, George Trakl, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. As the author shows, Kafka inexorably requires his...

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Published in:Contemporary psychology 1980-09, Vol.25 (9), p.695-696
Main Author: JARRETT, JAMES L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Creativity
Freud (Sigmund)
Human
Jung (Carl)
Mothers
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Summary:Reviews the book, Creative Man: Five Essays by Erich Neumann (1979). This posthumous collection contains a long, interpretive essay on Franz Kafka's The Trial and four shorter essays on Marc Chagall, George Trakl, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. As the author shows, Kafka inexorably requires his reader to identify with Joseph K, to accept the fact of his innocence, to hope with mounting desperation that somehow it will all come out all right; yet at the same time the author furnishes the reader with incontrovertible evidence that the character is "irresponsible, arrogant, vain, and, in relation to himself, untruthful." Neumann examines anew the role of the mother, personal and archetypal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0010-7549
DOI:10.1037/019516