ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers an inside view of the creative process through an examination of his work on a single painting from beginning to end. He performed an experiment with a painting by taking photographs as the work progressed over a four-month period, by keeping notes on his ongoing reactions to the painting before and after each session with it, and by keeping a journal of his dreams during the process. At the time of the dream, the painting was predominantly green and he wondered if this neutralisation by the colour had actually happened inside me, or was he using the canvas to cover up unacceptable feelings. The sculpture in the dream stands for the section in the upper left of his painting, the area he liked that turned out right from the very beginning with no effort. The author take possession of what Kernberg/Einstein has—handwriting and ideas, but the sculpture is from his painting.
