psychoanalysis

The creative process is full of struggle, stress, and pain. It involves intense inner violence. We are overwhelmed by the force of our own impulses. As we try to bring our desires, dreams, ideas, and fantasies into the world, we crash into the limits of reality. We try to find a way to express ourselves within those limits and find gratification within the limits of reality. For this, we need a space that is both connected to external reality and nourished by inner reality. In this space, we transform the violence and create a something. Without this violence, creating something isn’t possible. It’s like the pain of giving birth.