ABSTRACT
Creativity thrives on the interplay between ideal images in the mind and the hard facts of life. The sense of the ideal marks the discovery of mind. H. Kohut's attempt to give ideal images their due as a source of creative inspiration and healing brings to the fore basic problematics inherent in Sigmund Freud. In Freudian dramas the ideal imago variously saturates one's own body, ego, mother, father, and on to a wide range of possibilities. As Freud's views developed, he felt the chief obstacle to heterosexuality was homosexual libido. The Freudian primal scene (essentially sodomic rape) expresses destructive or paralyzing distortions of this activity-passivity reciprocity, whether between individuals or within the same subject. Sodomic rape, as a paradigmatic image combining power and helplessness, may be viewed on many levels. Since Freud much psychoanalytic thinking has focused on the mother-infant relationship preceding "anality" and "phallicity".
