ABSTRACT
A person has shown creative thought is to judge that which he has produced as original with respect to previous relevant products and significant with regard to any ones. Theories of creative thinking based upon the principle of association have been proposed by a number of authors. The problem of reconciling conscious and unconscious control of thinking has occupied a prominent place in psychoanalytic conceptions of the creative process. In his study of Leonardo da Vinci, Sigmund Freud had attempted to relate the inhibitions of the artist's sexual life to his childhood experiences and to his artistic activities. M. T. Mednick accounts for individual differences in creative thinking by assuming that there are consistent individual differences the production of conventional and remote associations to stimuli. Similarly, M. Bush believes that there has been an overemphasis on the role of regression in creative thinking.
