ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how the creative response first becomes an agent of healing. Latency bridges childhood and adolescence, with expressive styles which become somewhat less creative, relying more on current fads or cultural or personal stereotypes. Attachment theory was part of a triumvirate psychic apparatus, followed by three other main constructs Freud termed the id, ego and superego. The process of 'synthesis', in which the elements of id, ego and superego are integrated, is the overarching goal of maturation, however incomplete or haltingly it occurs. The behaviour stems from what Damasio terms 'primordial impulses', an updated reference to Freud's id, now described as a phenomenon that is synonymous with the unconscious, which aims at drive discharge. It is realistically posed in a casual but aesthetic style with realistic contour-line work and subtle shadings which provide emotional nuance.
