Dynamics of Creation - Couverture souple

Storr, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0345376730 ISBN 13 : 9780345376732

Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

Book by Storr Anthony

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What drives the artist to create masterpieces and the scientist to forge breakthrough theories? This is the fundamental question that British psychiatrist Anthony Storr sets out to answer in The Dynamics of Creation.
Storr begins by debunking the popular notion that creative people are necessarily motivated by neurosis. Although creativity can spring from a desire for power, wealth, prestige, or sexual conquest, at its deepest level it is an integrative impulse that both nourishes and consoles the human soul. In probing the origins and the consequences of creativity, Storr paints brief, stunningly insightful portraits of an astonishing range of gifted individuals, including Leonardo da Vinci, Darwin, Mozart, Einstein, Kafka, Newton, Balzac, and Wagner. A brilliant synthesis of psychology, biography, cultural analysis, and artistic appreciation.
"Rich and rewarding . . . Full of wise and humane understanding." The Economist

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0345376730
• ISBN 13: 9780345376732
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible