ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author emphasizes a theme that is especially interesting for psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice that assigns a significant place to the creative processes. In some studies of creativity, a movement of "subjective auto-destitution" was postulated as necessary. The author centres his analysis on the notion of regression at the service of the ego, highlighted in studies by Ernst Kris. He considers this notion too general, and believes that the author require greater precision in his thinking concerning the ego functions involved in the different phases of the creative processes. People agree with the author's thinking and contributions, and consider them a stage in studies on creativity. Many ego functions are committed to this creative work; they develop perceptions, images, and ideas that evaluate and compare, produce dispersion and selection, discard some materials and take in others. Certain unconscious representations start to become conscious, emerging in a plurality of receptors.
