ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the vicissitudes of creativity in psychoanalysis and suggests some characteristics of creative analysis and ways that analysts can encourage and enhance the potential of patients. With the initiation of an artwork, the successful creative artist engages in a complex and demanding psychological process. Similarly a creative analysis rarely results from a tentative or optional investment. Creativity is the production of something new whatever that might be: a piece of art, an idea or an object, or a display of emotion. The ability to respond to the world creatively not only increases the probability of survival but also may enhance living conditions and emotional satisfactions. Creative analysis is possible only when the process matters deeply and the patient and analyst immerse themselves in it. Psychoanalysis aims to restore the artist in the patient, the part of the person that makes interest despite the early environment.
