ABSTRACT
Primary psychic creativity is associated with the "female element" in D. W. Winnicott’s later work where he focuses on the "location of culture". He postulates that this is the basis for "creative living" and "feeling real". The implication is that through surrendering to uncertainty, the patient will be facilitated to find something relating to his own sense of creativity. In "Creativity and Its Origins", Winnicott includes a paper he had presented in 1966 to the British Psycho-Analytical Society concerning “Male and Female Elements to be Found in Men and Women". Winnicott sees the female element as rooted in being between mother and infant who are merged and unintegrated. His theory of creativity is different from those of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein, in that he places the roots of creativity at the very beginning of life and at the heart of the mother–infant relationship.
