ABSTRACT
AS I HAD OCCASION to note in Chapter 2, Gilbert Rose (1980), paraphrasing Freud, termed the individual's continuous, evolving personality development "the creativity of everyday life." Unobjectionable as his witty proposal seems to be, I would prefer in all seriousness to reserve the term "creativity" for activity that involves devising some valued product—if only a thought that can be recorded through some form of symbolic notation. In accord with such a definition, "the creativity of everyday life" might be better understood as manifestations of the universal human propensity to reach for new configurations that occur outside the traditional areas of creative endeavor, that is, outside of art, science, religion, humanistic scholarship, or public affairs.
