title: Insight and creativity.
abstract: The similarities between the process of creativity in art and science and the phenomenon of insight in psychoanalysis are examined according to the four criteria of thought: categorization, abstraction, context, and association. The thesis is that both creativity and insight are based on a synthesis of the operational modes of the primary and secondary processes.
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D001244:Association; D003210:Concept Formation; D003405:Creativity; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D009769:Object Attachment; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012586:Science