ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two among many factors that are important in the emergence of special creativity in young adulthood. These factors are a developmental readiness in terms of a process of consolidation of an evolving personality and the construction of a special, internalized object relationship combined with a highly invested interpersonal relationship between the artist and a significant person. Biographical data must be considered in a comprehensive examination of cognitive, conscious, preconscious, and unconscious aspects of creative individuals’ motivations, imagination, and fantasy life. Musical and mathematical creativity are often matched together, but linguistic and empathic skills are rarely connected to interests in mathematics or physics. The creative mind escapes the “straitjacket imposed on it by the inflexible categorization modes of intellect and language and to create new and original categories”. The interpretative work of the analytic situation produces the most precious gift of total, uncompromising understanding and activates or catalyzes creative new personality growth.
