ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on what she thinks of as emotional creativity. She considers this, in relation to woman as mother, and also woman as psychoanalyst. The maternal creative function she thinks of as a part of the analyst's creative function; this capacity may be present in female or male analysts. The author shows that there is a conflictual struggle between creativity in the service of authenticity and creative inauthenticity. She explains what happens when authentic maternal function is replaced by a masquerade. The creative endeavour appears to have been dedicated to the production of inauthenticity, a false self as provider breast, a mask. Authenticity is based on some acceptance of external reality and some acceptance of oneself as one really is. The author concludes with some thoughts about corresponding issues of authenticity and inauthenticity in the analyst.
