ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two case clinical cases. Famous women writers have compared their creative experience to the perception of their own mortality and transience. Margaret Atwood has spoken about writing as a negotiating with shadows; Flannery O'Connor considered writing as getting into the devil's territory without the fear of getting dusty. Creativity and procreation are compared, like a sort of psychic pregnancy of the creator. The yearning and concrete need is put forward and disturbs the mysterious process dealing with the threshold between life and death or in an analytic couple: something needing to be lived and enjoyed before one may even worry about producing it. If this does not happen, the couple is paradoxically robbed of its specific creative capacity. But in procreation as in analysis and, generally, in the creative process, when some purpose becomes compelling—be it a baby, symptom disappearance, an artistic production—something gets stuck and stops flowing.
