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Quelle: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 32
Kontext: Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age old capacity to be insurgent. They love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

Ch 3 : Creativity and the Unconcious, p. 59
The Courage to Create (1975)
Kontext: A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born. The insight is then born with anxiety, guilt, and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Ch 3 : Creativity and the Unconcious, p. 76
The Courage to Create (1975)
Kontext: Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by its very nature, a threat to rationality and external control.

Quelle: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 12 : Toward New Community
Kontext: Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt — these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. … My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.

Quelle: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Kontext: Civilization begins with a rebellion. Prometheus, one of the Titans, steals fire from the gods on Mount Olympus and brings it as a gift to man, marking the birth of human culture. For this rebellion Zeus sentences him to be chained to Mount Caucasus where vultures consume his liver during the day and at night it grows back only to be again eaten away the next day. This is a tale of the agony of the creative individual, whose nightly rest only resuscitates him so that he can endure his agonies the next day.

Quelle: Love and Will (1969), p. 126
Kontext: We must rediscover the daimonic in a new form which will be adequate to our own predicament and fructifying for our own day. And this will not be a rediscovery alone but a recreation of the reality of the daimonic.
The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important. We initially experience the daimonic as a blind push. It is impersonal in the sense that it makes us nature's tool. … consciousness can integrate the daimonic, make it personal.

Quelle: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21

Quelle: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 76

Quelle: Love and Will (1969), p. 243

Quelle: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 69

Quelle: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 51

Quelle: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 235

The Meaning of Anxiety (1950)

Quelle: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 13

Quelle: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 54-55

Quelle: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 37

Quelle: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 60-61

Quelle: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 49

Quelle: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel

Quelle: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 8 : Ecstasy and Violence, p. 176

Quelle: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 31

Quelle: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 56

Quelle: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21

Quelle: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 214

Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978) by Ronald S. Valle and Mark King

Quelle: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 17

Quelle: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel

Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
The Courage to Create (1975)

Quelle: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 5 : The Delphic Oracle as Therapist, p. 100