ABSTRACT
There have been many revisions of psychoanalysis since Freud established its foundations in the first half of the twentieth century. Creativity and its products have continued to fascinate psychoanalysts for the very reasons that they appeal to philosophers and mythmakers. The humanist character of the arts and their source in the human imagination make them a natural subject of psychoanalytic inquiry. Two important psychoanalysts who wrote on creativity and the arts from post-Freudian perspectives are D. W. Winnicott in England and Jacques Lacan in France.
