ABSTRACT
A part from the more implicit role allotted to transference and counter-transference, creative hermeneutic approaches are elements of dynamic psychotherapy. Accordingly, the distinctions over and against psychoanalysis are fluid. Many psychoanalysts would probably agree that perception/memory, narrative shaping, and interactional experience are essential elements of the analytic approach. In S. Freud’s interpretation of dreams, the creativity of ordinary persons is the focus of concern. The mechanisms of dream-work—condensation, displacement, concern for representability, and secondary revision—create the manifest dream content out of the latent dream thoughts and can be legitimately regarded as a creative process. The essential motives for play and creative imagination are coping with reality and realizing drive needs. Freud repeatedly uses the concept to refer to a psychic process underlying creative activity, intellectual work, and occupations that are of value to society in some way.
