His Majesty the Unconscious ...
In one of his works Mark Twain told an interesting theory about the origin of creativity, in particular poetry. Like, the invention of rhythmically repeated syllables of primitive people was driven by hunger. "Oh, meat, oh, dense red meat!" Exclaimed the first pi'ite dressed in skins, stepping out into the middle of the circle of his fellow tribesmen. And he received stormy applause and a good fee-a solid piece of booty. Creation of Twain became a monument of world literature. True, in the scientific world, another version is held about the nature of the creative principle. It was put forth by the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. So, genius argued: the basis of any manifestation of creativity is a sexual conflict. "Well, let me shiver a fire!" - is sung in a frivolous song about a man who does not have a girlfriend at the moment. However, not only the absence of sexual detente moves people to work. The roots of creation, according to Freud's theory, lie in our unconscious.
It accumulates conflicts (bans, psychological clamps) that were formed in a deep childhood. This may be moralization, Puritan education - when a teenager is not allowed, for example, to hang out with friends after nine in the evening or wear overly bold clothes. The conflict is also social: quarrels between friends, dislocation at work (inability to get along with colleagues, with superiors). Storms can also be family - the lack of a common language between parents and children. All these psychological cracks are an excuse for transforming some negative sublimation-sexual energy and creativity (for example, dissatisfaction with one's job-dreamed of becoming an interpreter and working as a secretary) into creativity. But the main brick of sublimation (by the way, this term in psychoanalysis was also introduced by Sigmund Freud) everything, and there was and remains sex. And the word "conflict" should not be understood as one negative. Joy stirs the soul, takes it out of stagnant peace. Therefore, people who are happy in love are also wonderful creators.
Sex as a career engine
Whose lot of sublimation? It turns out that everything is involved in the translation of sexual energy into creativity! The simplest product that gives out the unconscious is a dream. Did you dream of traveling in the tropics, among the trunks crouched with lianas and enjoying the great flowers? Or do you dream of swimming in turquoise ocean waves? So, they did not want to, they sublimated themselves - they were engaged in creativity. And the result of this creative process was a colorful dream. The "higher stage" of the unconscious's work is conscious creation. This is what is usually called creativity - writing poems and stories, writing pictures, fantasy graffiti on gray city walls, a musical composition written in a music note, dancing, playing a theater stage, and designing interiors. Remember school days: who from girl-friends, having fallen in love with the senior pupil, did not scratched something in a notebook in the light of a night lamp!
However, not one verse or playing the piano is a manifestation of the creative essence. Sublimation can be a hobby - for example, collecting stamps, badges, other items. Creative grain is a charity, patronage. Do you like to find and support talents, transfer part of your salary, send toys or clothes to an orphanage? So you are the creator, you are doing good. In other words, sublimation is all that is directed at creation. Even in an ordinary kitchen, you can become an unsurpassed creator. For example, on Friday evening, when the whole family is waiting for a delicious dinner, they prepared a shrimp salad and put it on a plate in the shape of a heart, decorating with cherry tomatoes? Congratulations, you transformed sublimation - sexual energy and creativity. In this culinary aspect, it, by the way, will strengthen the family.
Sublimation favors career growth. For example, falling in love, you can make repairs and turn a tight Khrushchev in a small oasis: with wicker furniture from the vine, with vases, ashtrays in the form of exotic fruits. And then get acquainted with professional designers and make sure that there are people who make out the apartment better. On the "earthquake" sexual superimposed another conflict - the social. The spirit of competition awakens. The next step is writing for design courses and mastering a new profession.
Libido in a white coat
From the point of view of psychoanalysis, sublimation is creativity. With it, you can grow spiritually and be healed. It is the basis of art therapy (a direction in psychology, when a person gets rid of his emotional experiences through creativity: molding from plasticine, creating watercolors, drawings). Here, and modernization of muscle memory (who in childhood did not like to draw!), And the release of prohibitions, conventions. At sessions of art therapy, social barriers are removed. Man plunges into the unconscious, relaxes and solves his psychological problems. Conducted and treatment sessions with sand - a kind of art therapy. Psychologists often observed such a phenomenon: an adult just immerses his hand in a container with sand and after a while begins to draw something on it with his fingers, create figures. His experience accumulated in infancy, when he was played in the sandbox, is working! By the way, healing art, you can suddenly become a co-author of a literary work.
Love or sculpt?
Reasonable question: what for in general to have sex, when there is a sublimation? And get a lot of bonuses: and glory, and an increase in the purse, and professional growth. There is another opinion. Why transform sublimation - sexual energy and creativity for intimacy into something else? Sex - this is an excellent tranquilizer created by nature, it gives an element of happiness. Of course, it is not worth it to renounce it in the name of the birth of a new painting or an amazing symphony. But you can not fixate on one intime. Creativity fills with spiritual power, helps to find a new meaning of being. That's why creators often have an enviable luster in their eyes, and an energetic gait even in a very respectable age. No wonder they say: "A woman who is only interested in her husband is not interested in anyone." Therefore it is better when sex and sublimation complement each other. Then all life will turn into a movement from joy to joy.