ABSTRACT
Creative work is as demanding of creative people working in all fields as analysis is of psychoanalysts. A painful process or struggle of thinking about, evaluating or considering each new thing must take place in order for the right or best new thing to be recognised—that new intervention that allows the work itself to grow and mature. Difficulties are experienced by creators in many fields; even in fields outside the scope of the arts—those not readily associated with creativity but require creative thinking nonetheless. For example, the process of labour negotiations requires negative capability and creative thinking. From author’s own experience as a painter and as an aspiring composer earlier in life, he have been able to see first-hand how analysts have much more in common with the creative and performing arts than one might generally realise. There are no formulas, neither for artistic creation nor for psychoanalytic work. Every solution is unique.
