Creative instinct
From Enpsychopedia
CREATIVE INSTINCT, a dynamism which consists of the search for new and qualitatively different experiences. It appears and grows at a relatively high level of development. Arising from the negative experience of excessive saturation with actual conditions, it is associated with the dynamisms of dissatisfaction with oneself, and the environment, the third factor, the desire to transform oneself, prospection and authenticity. It is not necessarily associated with a global development of mental functions and structures. It appears in the first phase of multilevel disintegration. (1970)
CREATIVE INSTINCT. An assembly of cohesively organized forces, often of great intensity, oriented toward a search for the new and the different in the external and the internal reality. Creative instinct is associated with accelerated development. (1972)
References
- Dabrowski, K., with Kawczak, A., & Piechowski, M. (1970).Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration. London: Gryf Publications. 162-180.
- Dabrowski, K. (1972).Psychoneurosis is Not An Illness. London: Gryf Publications. 289-306.
- Online: http://positivedisintegration.com/glos.htm