Creativity and Anxiety: Making, Meaning, Experience

Gavin Goodwin

ISBN 10: 3031213548 / ISBN 13: 9783031213540

Published by Springer, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Anxiety is perhaps the defining psychological malady of our age, whereas creativity is seen as an almost unassailable good, its importance heralded and promoted in a range of disciplines and domains. A number of diverse thinkers and researchers have tried to unpick the relationship between anxiety and creativity, and this short book explores and connects some of their ideas and findings. Drawing on psychoanalysis and neuroscience, existential psychology and mindfulness, literary studies and philosophy, this book places a range of different disciplines in dialogue. It explores how creativity and anxiety might impact one another, and argues for the importance of establishing a diverse and inclusive cultural space which everyone can draw from and contribute to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creativity and Anxiety: Making, Meaning, Experience
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031213548
• ISBN 13: 9783031213540
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 11D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 253 grams

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Synopsis

Anxiety is perhaps the defining psychological malady of our age, whereas creativity is seen as an almost unassailable good, its importance heralded and promoted in a range of disciplines and domains. A number of diverse thinkers and researchers have tried to unpick the relationship between anxiety and creativity, and this short book explores and connects some of their ideas and findings. Drawing on psychoanalysis and neuroscience, existential psychology and mindfulness, literary studies and philosophy, this book places a range of different disciplines in dialogue. It explores how creativity and anxiety might impact one another, and argues for the importance of establishing a diverse and inclusive cultural space which everyone can draw from and contribute to.  

About the Author

Gavin Goodwin is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is a co-director of Contempo (The Centre for Contemporary Poetry), a collaborative, cross-institutional research centre, and a published poet.